The Darling Buds of May
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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.
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