{"product_id":"the-darling-buds-of-may-von-h-e-bates","title":"The Darling Buds of May","description":"\u003cp\u003eH. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780141029672\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInspiration for the ITV drama The Larkins starring Bradley Walsh\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780141029672","offer_id":58244801724741,"sku":"9780141029672","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/b11f6e5c-0fb6-421b-9c56-d10f612fc453.jpg?v=1781237012","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-darling-buds-of-may-von-h-e-bates","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}