A skittish sabbatical for H.E. Bates, this is an invitation to
share the "perfick" paradise of Pop Larkin who lives in a small
house with a large family of six children, and an even larger wife,
where behind the junk, the nettles and the rusting hovels at the
back, there is a field of bluebells and the nightingales sing. Pop,
a figure of expansive geniality and appetite, dominates his small
domain, lives prodigally on the proceeds of fruit picking, and is
the first to open his house to Cedric Charlton, from the office of
the Inspector of Taxes, particularly because of his daughter
Mariette- she is possibly pregnant. (This first section appeared in
the S.E.P.- and its moral insouciance aroused some of the
readership.) Mariette is a very seductive seventeen, and Charlton
is quickly overcome- by Mariette, by the rich foods, and liquor; he
is persuaded to stay on as they all go out to the fields to bring
in the strawberries, and as she performs in a local gymkhana which
ends with a blaze of champagne and fireworks and Charlton's
proposal (no longer necessary).... For the few to cavil with the
morals, there will be others to enjoy the carefree improvidence of
this world- and it is seasonally suitable. (Kirkus Reviews)
Pop Larkin, who makes a fortune from scrap-iron deals but has never
paid income tax, lives in rural idyllic bliss with generous-hearted
Ma and their six children. When a young, earn'st tax official, Mr
Charlton, turns up one hot May afternoon in 1957 to investigate he
is bewitched immediately by eldest daughter Mariette and it isn't
long before he succumbs to the boisterous Larkin family charm and
largesse.6 women, 5 men, 4 girls, 1 boy
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