Quotes by : H.E. Bates

All day, after two days and nights of rain, water had been rising in the dykes and now it was creeping....

Miss Parkinson lived alone in a big bay-windowed house of Edwardian brick with a vast garden of decaying....

Well, we have to do something. There are all sorts of rumours about soldiers coming up.""These people....

Every morning Mrs Eglantine sat at the round bamboo bar of the New Pacific Hotel and drank her breakfast.....