Love for Lydia

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Love for Lydia is a semiautobiographical novel written by British author, H. E. Bates, that was first published in 1953.

[edit] TV adaptations

• Love for Lydia was made into a thirteen-part mini-series in first shown in 1977. It featured several actors in performances which were early in their television careers, including Mel Martin, Christopher Blake, Peter Davison, Jeremy Irons, Ralph Arliss and Sherrie Hewson. It also featured Rachel Kempson, Beatrix Lehmann and Michael Aldridge as Lydia's eccentric relations.

[edit] In other media

• Singer and songwriter Donna Lewis credits Love for Lydia as the inspiration for her song "I Love You Always Forever," which made it to #2 in the United States.

[edit] External links

• Love for Lydia at the Internet Movie Database