His last works included the novel The Triple Echo (1971) and a collection of short stories, The Song of the Wren (1972). Bates brings this lost world alive again. In these straightened times, doctors are embarrassed they can't provide anaesthetic and the hosts humiliated they can only serve eel. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French farmer offers them. But it's all in the details people staring into the middle distance, wind in the trees, autumnal fruit, the dusty floor of an old mill. The Darling Buds of May, the first of the popular Larkin family novels, was followed by A Breath of French Air (1959), When the Green Woods Laugh (1960), Oh, To Be in England! (1963) and A Little of What You Fancy (1970). When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World War, there are two things in his mind: the safety of his crew, and his own badly injured arm. Other well known novels include Purple Plain (1947), Jacaranda Tree (1949), Scarlet Sword (1950), and Love for Lydia (1952). His most famous work of fiction is the bestselling Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944). Other articles where Fair Stood the Wind for France is discussed: H.E.
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