H. E. Bates Lydia". His most popular creation was the Larkin family in "The Darling Buds of May". Pop Larkin and his family were inspired by a colourful character seen in a local shop in Kent by Bates and his family when on holiday. The man (probably Wiltshire trader William Dell, also on holiday) turned up to the shop with a huge wad of rubber-banded bank notes and proceeded to spoil his trailer load of children with Easter eggs and ice creams. The television adaptation, produced after his death by his son Richard and based on these stories, was a tremendous success. It
E (novel) in several countries." For some time, Miller Shanks even had their own (fictitious) web site, "www.millershanks.com" (no longer active) for readers to browse through. Beaumont also wrote a short sequel to the novel, "The e Before Christmas" (2000), and a complete sequel entitled "e Squared" (2010) incorporating text messaging content alongside emails. E (novel) e (originally subtitled "The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers") is a comic novel by Matt Beaumont first published in 2000. Written in the epistolary tradition, it consists entirely of e-mails written between the employees of an advertising agency and some of their business partners.