A Breath of French Air

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Author	H. E. Bates
Language	English
Genre	Comedy
Publisher	Michael Joseph Little, Brown (US)
Publication date	1959
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	The Darling Buds of May
Followed by	When the Green Woods Laugh

A Breath of French Air is a 1959 comedy novel by the British writer H. E. Bates. It is the sequel to his popular 1958 novel The Darling Buds of May about a family living in the Kent countryside.^{[1] [2]} The Larkins decide to take their first ever foreign holiday and travel to France, taking their Rolls-Royce with them. However they at first find France disconcertingly unlikable, including the bad weather.^[3]

In 1991 it was adapted into two episodes of the ITV television series The Darling Buds of May featuring David Jason and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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• Head, Dominic. Modernity and the English Rural Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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• Jacob, Merle & Apple, Hope. To be Continued: An Annotated Guide to Sequels. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

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