THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY
Book ID/图书代码： 07861206B03916
English Summary/英文概要： A novel by the author of "Country Tales", "Fair Stood the Wind for France", "Distant Horns of Summer" and "Country of White Clover", written in a style suited to the pastoral simplicity of the lives of rural English families.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 家还是一如既往地那么地美好。不是吗?
5月的一个晚上，拉金斯一家，老爸，老妈，玛丽埃特，辛妮尔，普利姆罗斯，维多利亚和蒙哥马利，外出吃完炸鱼和薯条，一路上吃着冰激凌散步回家。正陶醉于乡村气息的氛围的途中，他们发现了一名访客：这位自称塞德里克·查尔顿的人，是女王陛下的税务稽查员。
查尔顿先生来这里是想知道为何淘换旧货市场的老爸没有交税，但这个问题对拉金丝一家来说并没那么简单。玛丽埃特看上了这位，老爸称呼为‘查理’的稽查员，不久之后，家里人向这位恭顺的稽查员引介了轻松闲暇的乡村生活：野花散发的芬芳，品一瓶“Dragon’s Blood”红酒的乐趣，在炎炎的夏夜，吃一碗令人垂涎欲滴的冰激凌草莓。
事实上，这位税务原 查理很快就乐不思蜀了.... (Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：There is to be a major ITV television show based on THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY 5-book series, coming out in the UK end of 2020/early 2021.
They are absolute comfort books . . . All five titles are being rereleased just in time for summer (The Lady)
Pop is as sexy, genial, generous, and boozy as ever. Ma is a worthy match for him in all these qualities (- The Times)
As funny as Evelyn Waugh and as enchanting as Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie. Don’t miss it (- Herald)
Pop Larkin, Ma and their progeny . . . are essentially English of the rich and ribald England of Chaucer and Shakespeare. A superb and timeless comedy (- Scotsman)
A perfick piece of entertainment (- New York Times)
A wistful daydream about innocence and happiness (- Spectator)
A pulsing comedy of country manners. A five-alarm blaze of a book. Just about perfick (- Time)
A gently, anarchic wish-fulfilling daydream (- The Times)
The Larkins live - these novels please us by escaping definition (- Guardian)
About the Author/作者介绍： 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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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Penguin (UK), Tanapaev (Estonia), Gummerus (Finland)
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