A Little of What You Fancy
  • Published: 3 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141029658
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $26.00

A Little of What You Fancy

Inspiration for the ITV drama The Larkins starring Bradley Walsh

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30 Nov 2006
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3 May 2018
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Celebrating 60 perfick years of the Larkins

'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. He'll never live it down. He'll never be able to hold his head up again. Whatever will people think? What's he going to say when anybody asks him to have one?'

'No,' said Dr Conner.

'You'll have to strap him down,' Ma said. 'You'll have to put the handcuffs on.'

And so after a mild heart-attack - caused by rather too much of what you fancy - Pop Larkin finds himself off the booze, off the good food and off the good life generally, much to his own and everyone's else's horror and upset.

And while Ma tries to find ways around 'doctor's orders', young Primrose is finding her own way round a rather flustered - not to say flushed - Mr Candy ...
  • Published: 3 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141029658
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $26.00
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Praise for A Little of What You Fancy

They are absolute comfort books . . . all five titles are being rereleased just in time for summer

The Lady

A wistful daydream about innocence and happiness

Spectator

As funny as Evelyn Waugh and as enchanting as Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie. Don't miss it

Herald

Pop is as sexy, genial, generous, and boozy as ever. Ma is a worthy match for him in all these qualities

The, Times

Pop Larkin, Ma and their progeny . . . are essentially English of the rich and ribald England of Chaucer and Shakespeare. A superb and timeless comedy

Scotsman

The high mid-summer pomps of tree and flower are evoked with gusto

The Times Literary Supplement