I was born a year after the first book was published but I know it made him very happy to write and I'm told you could hear him laughing from his studio as he sat and wrote." It was a very happy period in their lives too. It was all very relaxed and their garden was lovely. When I look back I think the time we spent at my grandparents' was the happiest time of my life. He was known as HE, but that was what we called him.
Picture: ITVīates' granddaughter, Victoria Wicks - who played Sally Smedley in Drop the Dead Donkey and Harriet Lawes in Skins - said: "We called HE Pops. Catherine Zeta Jones in The Darling Buds of May series. Becky drew inspiration from classic railway posters of the 1930s for the new covers with a modern twist on the stories of past times. To mark the 60th anniversary of his series being first published, Penguin, with artist, Becky Bettesworth, have re-released the books, featuring new artwork of vibrant and evocative colours for their covers.
He and his wife Madge moved to Little Chart and bought an old granary and an acre of garden.
In the next 15 years he acquired a reputation for his stories about English country life. HE Bates started out as a journalist before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, at 20. Picture: ITVĪlso made famous by the early 90s TV series which featured David Jason, Kent's Pam Ferris and Catherine Zeta Jones which was filmed in Pluckley, Bates' series included four other books of the Larkins' lives - A Breath of French Air, When The Green Woods Laugh, A Little of What You Fancy and Oh! To Be in England. Pam Ferris and Sir David Jason in The Darling Buds of May series. It may be 60 years since author HE Bates published his book, The Darling Buds of May, but their appeal has endured, with his novels featuring Ma and Pa Larkin and their rural family life selling almost a million copies in paperback to date. The raucous and loveable Larkins summed up a Kentish dream of long summer days, fun and fabulous family life, all set in rolling Kent countryside.
As as The Darling Buds of May marks its 60th anniversary we step into the world of Ma and Pa Larkin. Author HE Bates captured Kent in all its perfick, rural glory.
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