The Darling Buds of May

by H.E. Bates | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0140016023 Global Overview for this book
Registered by over-the-moon of Lausanne, Vaud Switzerland on 3/14/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by over-the-moon from Lausanne, Vaud Switzerland on Sunday, March 14, 2004
Introducing the Larkin family and the first of their rural adventures, crashing their way through the English countryside in the wake of Pop, the quick-eyed golden-hearted junk-dealer, and Ma, with a mouthful of crisps and a laugh like a jelly.

This is the first of the Larkin books; Ma is 37 and has six children: Mariette, Primrose, twins Zinnia and Petunia, Victoria and Montgomery.

It is quite a jolly story, and I am releasing it for dawnmomoffour as it is her birthday today. Oh I know it isn't May, but here the buds come a month sooner, and yesterday I spotted a pink magnolia in full flower by the lake that beseeched me to leave a book in its branches.

The title comes from a Shakespeare 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
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines
And often is his gold complexion dimmed
And every fair from fair sometimes declines.

Journal Entry 2 by over-the-moon at Ouchy in Lausanne, Vaud Switzerland on Friday, April 1, 2005

Released 19 yrs ago (4/1/2005 UTC) at Ouchy in Lausanne, Vaud Switzerland

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Sur le quai d'Ouchy en face du musée Olympique il y a un magnolia rose en fleurs... et dans ses branches un livre

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