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The Darling Buds of May is a novel by British writer H. E. Bates first published in 1958. It was the first of a series of five novels about the Larkins a rural family from Kent.The plot involves Pop Ma and Mariette Larkin beguiling Charley a timid and naive tax inspector into abandoning his investigations to take up residence on the family farm.The novel was loosely adapted into the film The Mating Game in 1959.