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Love for Lydia is a semi-autobiographical novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 written by British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 H. E. Bates
H. E. Bates

Herbert Ernest Bates, Order of the British Empire, , better known as H. E. Bates, was an England writer and author. His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May , and My Uncle Silas....
, first published in 1952.








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Love for Lydia is a semi-autobiographical novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 written by British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 H. E. Bates
H. E. Bates

Herbert Ernest Bates, Order of the British Empire, , better known as H. E. Bates, was an England writer and author. His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May , and My Uncle Silas....
, first published in 1952.

TV adaptations

  • Love for Lydia was made into a thirteen-part serial by London Weekend Television
    London Weekend Television

    London Weekend Television was the ITV network franchise holder for London and the Home Counties at weekends. It broadcast from Fridays at 5:15pm to Monday mornings at 5:59am....
    , first shown in 1977. It featured several actors in performances which were early in their television careers, including Christopher Blake
    Christopher Blake

    Christopher Blake was an England actor who is best remembered for starring in the British sitcom That's My Boy alongside Mollie Sugden....
    , Mel Martin
    Mel Martin

    Mel Martin is an England actor. Her father was the Painting Frank Martin .She has appeared in many British television programmes and films including The Pallisers, Love for Lydia, Bergerac, Adam Dalgliesh, Inspector Morse, Lovejoy , Cadfael and Midsomer Murders ....
    , Christopher Hancock
    Christopher Hancock

    Christopher Hancock was a United Kingdom television and theatre actor. He was born in Bishop Auckland, Durham, England. His brother is actor Stephen Hancock....
    , Peter Davison
    Peter Davison

    Peter Davison is an England actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the Fifth Doctor of Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984....
    , Jeremy Irons
    Jeremy Irons

    Jeremy John Irons is an England film, television and stage actor. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards....
    , Ralph Arliss
    Ralph Arliss

    'Ralph Arliss' is a United Kingdom actor.His television credits include: Doctor Who , Z Cars, The Sweeney, Survivors, Return of the Saint, Secret Army , Love for Lydia, Shoestring, Airline , The Jewel in the Crown , Dempsey and Makepeace, Call Me Mister , Boon , Prime Suspect, Casualt...
     and Sherrie Hewson
    Sherrie Hewson

    Sherrie Hewson is an England actress, television presenter and novelist....
    . It also featured Rachel Kempson
    Rachel Kempson

    Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave was an England actor....
    , Beatrix Lehmann
    Beatrix Lehmann

    Beatrix Lehmann was a United Kingdom actress, theatre director and author.Lehmannn trained at RADA and made her stage debut as Peggy in a 1924 production The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith, Hammersmith....
     and Michael Aldridge
    Michael Aldridge

    Michael William ffolliott Aldridge , was an England actor. While it was his role as Seymour in the television series Last of the Summer Wine which made him widely recognized, his long career as a successful character actor on stage and screen dated back to the 1930s....
     as Lydia's eccentric relations. Other stars were Daivd Ryall, Georgine Anderson, Paula Kent, Donald Bissett, Antony Brown, Jonathan Darwill, Holly de Jong, Fiona Duncan, Carol Frazer and Sam Kydd


DVD Release

Love for Lydia is available on DVD in the UK and the US.

Influence

Welsh-born singer/songwriter Donna Lewis
Donna Lewis

Donna Lewis is a Welsh people singer-songwriter and record producer, best known for the 1996 hit single, "I Love You Always Forever"....
 credits Love for Lydia as the inspiration for her song "I Love You Always Forever
I Love You Always Forever

"I Love You Always Forever" is a single released in 1996 by Welsh singer Donna Lewis, from her debut album, Now in a Minute. Inspired by the H....
," which was a huge international hit in 1996.

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