The Song of the Wren

by H. E. Bates

  His most popular creation was the Larkin family which featured in five novels beginning with The Darling Buds of May in 1958. The later television adaptation was a huge success.

  Many other stories were adapted for the screen, the most renowned being The Purple Plain (1947) starring Gregory Peck, and The Triple Echo (1970) with Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed.

  H. E. Bates married in 1931, had four children and lived most of his life in a converted granary near Charing in Kent. He was awarded the CBE in 1973, shortly before his death in 1974.

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  First published in Great Britain in 1972 by Michael Joseph

  ‘Music for Christmas’ first published in Great Britain in 1951 in Illustrated

  This electronic edition published in 2016 by Bloomsbury Reader

  Copyright © 1972 Evensford Productions Limited

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  eISBN: 9781448215300

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