Love for Lydia (The great writers library) - Hardcover

H E. Bates

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863076955 ISBN 13: 9780863076954

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish, 1988

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Review:

"'One of the most vividly evocative writers of English... able to conjure up in a handful of words whole landscapes and moods' Listener 'Drawn with simple, often touching force.' Guardian 'H. E. Bates can achieve a quality of lyrical intensity that few contemporary novelists can match' Times Literary Supplement"

About the Author:

H.E. Bates was born in 1905 at Rushden in Northamptonshire and was educated at Kettering Grammar School. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book after which he quickly acquired a reputation for his stories about English country life. During the World War II, he was a squadron leader in the R.A.F. and was commissioned to write stories about service life, which he published under the pseudonym of 'Flying Officer X'. In 1958 the Larkin family appeared for the first time in The Darling Buds of May, the first of the enduringly popular Larkin family novels. Bates was awarded he C.B.E. in 1973 and died in 1974.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0863076955
• ISBN 13: 9780863076954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1