The Darling Buds of May

Description:

The first of the Larkin novels, first published in 1958, this short comic novel introduced the Larkin family to an unsuspecting world. Here Pop, Ma, Mariette and the children beguile Charley, a timid and naive tax inspector into abandoning his investigations to take up residence at their rural paradise in Kent.

subjects: Rural England,  Larkin family (Fictitious characters),  Fiction,  Country life,  Fiction, humorous, general,  England, fiction,  Larkin family (fictitious characters), fiction,  Larkin, pop (fictitious character), fiction

Places: Kent,  England

Times: 1950's