H.E. Bates Companion

A story concerning a cold, controlling woman who buys, decorates, and sells one home after another and her helpless and disturbed husband, wanting only to settle down and garden. In Lilliput (January/February 1953), The Daffodil Sky (1955), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E.Bates (1963), A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987), Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories (2009).

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