![]() ![]() ![]() In the first novella, Pop, Ma, and Mariette Larkin attempt to beguile Cedric Charlton, a timid and naive tax inspector, into abandoning his investigation of their finances. When told that Pop has kissed the middle-aged Miss Pilchester, she responds, "Do her good. Ma Larkin expects this behaviour and approves of it. In each novella in the series, Pop Larkin kisses, caresses, and pinches most of the women that he encounters. Pop and Ma Larkin celebrate sex, youth, and vitality. Pop Larkin opposes taxes and any barriers to free enterprise. Nevertheless, they joyfully spend money on horses, cars, perfume, fine furniture, and holidays abroad. Their only income is through selling scrap, picking strawberries, and selling farm animals or previous purchases that they've tired of. Pop and Ma Larkin and their many children take joy in nature, each other's company, and almost constant feasts. The title of the book is a quote from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date It was the first of a series of five books about the Larkins, a rural family from Kent. The Darling Buds of May is a novella by British writer H. ![]()
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