A Breath of French Air: Inspiration for the ITV drama The Larkins starring Bradley Walsh (The Larkin Family Series)
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H. E. Bates (Author)
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H. E. Bates was born in 1905 in Northamptonshire. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. In the next fifteen years he acquired a distinguished reputation for his stories about English country life. During the Second World War he was a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F. The Darling Buds of May (1958), the first of the popular Larkin family novels, was followed by A Breath of French Air (1959), When the Green Woods Laugh (1960), Oh! To Be in England (1963) and A Little of What You Fancy (1970). His works have been translated into sixteen languages. H. E. Bates was awarded the C.B.E. in 1973 and died in January 1974.
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- Contributor: H. E. Bates
- Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780141029641
- Number of Pages: 144
- Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x8mm
- Packaged Weight: 106
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Release Date: 2006-11-30
- Series: The Larkin Family Series
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: H. E. Bates was born in 1905 in Northamptonshire. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. In the next fifteen years he acquired a distinguished reputation for his stories about English country life. During the Second World War he was a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F. The Darling Buds of May (1958), the first of the popular Larkin family novels, was followed by A Breath of French Air (1959), When the Green Woods Laugh (1960), Oh! To Be in England (1963) and A Little of What You Fancy (1970). His works have been translated into sixteen languages. H. E. Bates was awarded the C.B.E. in 1973 and died in January 1974.
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