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When the Green Woods Laugh

When the Green Woods Laugh

H.E. Bates
3.9/5 ( ratings)
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'When the Green Woods Laugh' was the third in a series of five immensely popular comic novels featuring the Larkin family, and consisting of ‘The Darling Buds of May’ , ‘A Breath of French Air’ , ‘When the Green Woods Laugh’ , ‘Oh! To Be in England’ , and ‘A Little of What You Fancy’ .
Bates, speaking of how he was inspired to create the Larkin family, recalled the real junkyard that he often passed near his home in Kent; and he remembered seeing a family -- a father, mother and many children, sucking at ice-creams and eating crisps in a "ramshackle lorry that had been recently painted a violent electric blue".
He tried writing a brief tale based on the family, but soon decided that he couldn’t waste such a rich gallery of characters to a short story." Pop is a wonderful character who hates pomp, pretension and humbug; loves his family, but doesn’t hesitate to break a few rules... and his and the Larkins' secret is “that they live as many of us would like to live if only we had the guts and nerve to flout the conventions."
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Release
November 30, 2006
ISBN
0141029684
ISBN 13
9780141029689

When the Green Woods Laugh

H.E. Bates
3.9/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
'When the Green Woods Laugh' was the third in a series of five immensely popular comic novels featuring the Larkin family, and consisting of ‘The Darling Buds of May’ , ‘A Breath of French Air’ , ‘When the Green Woods Laugh’ , ‘Oh! To Be in England’ , and ‘A Little of What You Fancy’ .
Bates, speaking of how he was inspired to create the Larkin family, recalled the real junkyard that he often passed near his home in Kent; and he remembered seeing a family -- a father, mother and many children, sucking at ice-creams and eating crisps in a "ramshackle lorry that had been recently painted a violent electric blue".
He tried writing a brief tale based on the family, but soon decided that he couldn’t waste such a rich gallery of characters to a short story." Pop is a wonderful character who hates pomp, pretension and humbug; loves his family, but doesn’t hesitate to break a few rules... and his and the Larkins' secret is “that they live as many of us would like to live if only we had the guts and nerve to flout the conventions."
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Release
November 30, 2006
ISBN
0141029684
ISBN 13
9780141029689

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