![]() Nobody ever says a cross or negative word. Larkin) has a worrying habit of kissing women (very uncool today) but an abundance of money and food. It is warm, it is light and everything is fun and happy. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's like falling into a soft romantic dream of summertime. If you are looking for a short (it is only 137 pages) light-hearted, feel-good novel as an escape from all the stresses of today's world, this may be what you are looking for. I usually enjoy novels set within an historical time period or another country as a way of learning more about that era or place, so I tried to enjoy this novel as a picture of a part of England with which I am not familiar (Kent) during a period I am too young to remember (the 1950s). I must admit at first I still found the over-use of "perfick" incredibly annoying and the way Pop rode rough-shod over other people's feelings and opinions and his disregard for the law, difficult to take, but the more I read I did start to warm to the characters. ![]() But as this novel is considered a classic, I put prejudices aside and set about reading it. I was very pleased to receive my first book to review for the Viking Book Club, however I was a little disappointed as I had never taken to the original TV series finding the characters irritating and difficult to identify with, so had not watched it. ![]()
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