does anyone know the novel Love For Lydia by H.E Bates?
And if so can anyone tell me how the silly bitch ends up in hospital?

Boring explanatory bit: I go to sleep listening to Radio 7 and often wake up still listening to it. On either Saturday or Sunday morning can't remember which) I doze through a dramatization of the above novel, not liking it much but not awake enough to turn it off. Come Sunday night, My girlie and I were lying in bed, reading and listening to the radio (exciting life we lead) and it was repeated.

Long story short (too late!): AT some point the annoying heroine lands her self in hospital and spends bloody ages getting better again and both times I listened to the wretched I missed How the silly bint got there, some thing I didn't even notice until my missus casually asked what happened to her.

Now it's driving me mad, nowhere that I can find on the internet is and actual plot synopsis, many things claim to be,but contain little of the actual plot, and I'm buggered if I'm listening to the damn thing again on iPlayer either.

/rant
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:41, 32 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

damn fool crashes her car innit.

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:43, Reply)

sounds good
cheers, that puts my mind at rest, odd how these little things can become an obsession.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:46, Reply)

it was a tragic
tractor accident
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:43, Reply)

She was stuffing lobsters up her arsehole in an attempt to emulate Jane Mansfield
it all went horribly wrong
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:45, Reply)

were this to be true
the entire book might actually have been worth reading/listening to. as it stands its a bloody boring pointless thing that should have ended very early when hero realises heroine is a silly, self-centered little bitch and buggers off in to find someone worthwhile
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:50, Reply)

The only HE Bates I have read is "The Triple Echo"
It's about a lonely female farmer during the second world war who stuffs lobsters up her arsehole in an attempt to emulate Jane Mansfield.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:52, Reply)

seriously?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:57, Reply)

Nah, I was getting mixed up with "The Darling Buds of May"
which is about a farming family during the inter-war years who stuff lobsters up their arseholes to emulate Jane Mansfield.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:01, Reply)

you sir, are an untruther
probably a bounder and a cad to boot.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:05, Reply)

That's me
ding dong
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:08, Reply)

you have seen through his veil of deceit
and uncovered the true nature of his personality.

you should be heaped with plaudits
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:09, Reply)

and have lobsters
shoved up your arse hole..etc.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:10, Reply)

I'm alergic to Plaudits
They bring me out inna rash.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:11, Reply)

Lobsters
have that effect on me too......
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:13, Reply)

i've had worse jobs.

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:56, Reply)

Basically, she suffered from, er, what was known in-, in the medical trade as 'lobsters-up-the-arsehole'.

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:04, Reply)

yeah, well
Guees I can add Derek and Clive to the Big List of Stuff I Find Tedious and Unfunny, But Everyone Else Thinks Is Great.

along with, Seinfeld, Woody Allen, Catherine Tate....... mutter mutter etc.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:10, Reply)

I don't find them funny either
self-indulgent crap if you ask me. Fair enough they did it, but it's no funnier than if I got drunk and sat around swearing at my mates.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:11, Reply)

isn't getting drunk and swearing with mates really funny though?

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:12, Reply)

it is for us
but not for anyone else

which is how I feel about Derek and Clive. Probably enjoyable for them, and their close friends, but really shouldn't be for anyone else.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:14, Reply)

to do, yes
to record and bore everyone silly with or fucking decades, no. that would be.... hang on, it's on the tip of me tongue.... Self-indulgent tosh, that's it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:16, Reply)

ah well i enjoy it,
i hope you don't mind that i enjoy it! sorry if this is a problem.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:20, Reply)

I don't mind
and your apology is accepted in advance, just in case I decide to care at some point in the future.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:22, Reply)

thank you for telling me your opinions on the matter and at the same time how little you care about this matter.

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:37, Reply)

and thank you
for thanking me, for.... ah what the fuck, long as every body's cool and everything, not sure how me not finding Derek and Clive funny relates to your love of getting drunk, or why.. oh well. time to go home, but your probably see where I'm going, no offence meant and all that, and if any taken, well, feel free to keep it, 'its a gift.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 18:06, Reply)

i'm not sure how it relates to my love of getting drunk either...

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 18:49, Reply)

don't get me wrong
I have nothing against self-indulgence. you should hear the music my mates and I make (not the stuff in my profile)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:20, Reply)

I feel strangely validated
Cheers random bloke off the internet, you have made my little life, just a little less mind-numbingly dull and depressing for a nanosecond. I shall now commence to cyber-stalk you forever.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:14, Reply)

about fucking time someone recognised that I'm worth stalking

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:14, Reply)

you say that now...
just wait until you succumb to the urge to eat that weed-laced croissant that mysteriously turns up on you doorstep one morning, and wake up bound, gagged and naked in my secret underground lair.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:20, Reply)

won't be all that much different to eating my own weed-laced croissants and waking up
bound, gagged and naked in my own secret underground lair...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:21, Reply)

darn!
It's ain't no fun when they isn't scared.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 25 Jan 2010, 17:32, Reply)