The Darling Buds of May (novel) film "The Mating Game" in 1959. ITV produced a television series based on the novel and its sequels, "The Darling Buds of May", which ran from 1991 to 1993. The Darling Buds of May (novel) The Darling Buds of May is a novella by British writer H. E. Bates, first published in 1958. It was the first of a series of five books about the Larkins, a rural family from Kent. Pop and Ma Larkin and their many children take joy in nature, each other's company, and almost constant feasts. Their only income is through selling scrap, picking strawberries, and
Josephine White Bates Josephine White Bates Josephine White Bates (8 July 1862 – 1934) was a Canadian-born American author who preferred to use her married name Mrs. E. Lindon Bates. She was the author of "A. Blind Lead", 1886; "Bunch-Grass Stories", 1892; and "Mercury Poisoning in the Industries of New York City and Vicinity", 1912. Josephine White was born 8 July 1862 at Portage du Faur, near Ottawa, Canada, the daughter of George E. and Mary White. She was a student in Lake Forest, Illinois, and at the Lake Forest College, 1876-80. She married Lindon Wallace Bates (born 1858), a hydraulic engineer, of