H. E. Bates with the television adaptations of his stories "The Darling Buds of May" and its sequels as well as adaptations of "My Uncle Silas", "A Moment in Time", "Fair Stood the Wind for France" and "Love for Lydia". In his home town of Rushden, H.E. Bates has a road named after him to the west of the town, leading to the local leisure centre. Eads, Peter, 1990, H.E.BATES, A Bibliographical Study, St. Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester, Hampshire, Omnigraphics, Detroit 1990 Eads, Peter, 2007, H.E.BATES, A Bibliographical Study, Oak Knoll Press & British Library, (Oak Knoll Press) (The British Library) Eads, Peter, 1990,
The Two Sisters (novel) The Two Sisters (novel) The Two Sisters was the first novel published by English author H. E. Bates in 1926. It was his first novel, though he had published a one-act play "The Last Bread" earlier that year.The book was inspired by one of his midnight walks, which took him to the small village of Farndish in Bedfordshire. There, late at night, he saw a light burning in a cottage window and it was this that triggered the story. It was written when Bates was only 19 living in Rushden and working as a warehouse clerk. It was rejected by