The cocktail cabinet is freely opened, and there’s always a bottle of whiskey on the kitchen table as if it were a condiment like a malt vinegar or brown sauce. The Larkins don’t eat they feast-on a lot of food that would give a cardiologist a stroke. Ostensibly a farmer, Pop is a wheeler-dealer, a scrounger, a bit of a lad with his eye on the prize. Ma and Pop Larkin and a brood of eccentrically named children live in a world apart. Apple orchards, market garden fields, and grazing land still abound.Īgainst this backdrop, Bates spins the story of the free-spirited Pop Larkin and his family living on Home Farm at the edge of the village, blissfully uncompelled by either the social expectations or the neurosis of the larger world.
A plentitude of oast houses-kilns for drying hops-leave telltale evidence, though most of the commercial hop growing has migrated elsewhere. During the 1950s and for generations before, this area was rife with hop gardens. A five-alarm blaze of a book.The High Weald of Kent, between the busy market town of Ashford and the south coast, is a warren of tidy villages sprinkled across the wooded hills and fertile farmland. Or will he beat a hasty retreat to the office? Mariette takes a shine to 'Charley' - as Pop calls him - and before long the family have introduced the uncomplaining inspector to the delights of country living: the lusty scents of wild flowers, the pleasures of a bottle of Dragon's Blood, cold cream dribbled over a bowl of strawberries and the sweet song of nightingales. Yet as junk-dealer Pop patiently explains: nothing's ever that simple at the Larkins'. Waiting for them is a young man: Mr Cedric Charlton, an upstanding inspector of taxes, come to discover why they haven't paid any. One pleasant May evening, Pop and Ma Larkin and their six children - sated on fish, chips and ice cream - return to the rustic charms of their Kent farm. Bates has generated through his books is so uplifting' Bradley Walsh Bates's novel is back in a brand new adaptation starring Bradley Walsh and Joanna Scanlan Thirty years after The Darling Buds of May became one of the most popular comedy-dramas in ITV history, H.E.
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