Shop H.E. Bates Online
- ID
- b249
- Title
- "The Pemberton Thrush."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 15
- Word Count
- 3850
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Publication Year
- 1959
- Topics
- Boyhood, Rushden, Music
A boy is infatuated with a beautiful singer who precipitously quits his father's vocal quartet, and then recalls some thirty years later chancing upon her in a train. The tale probably reflects Bates's boyhood with a choir-leading father (Albert Bates).
In Argosy (May 1959, with title "Pemberton Thrush"), The Watercress Girl (1959).
Read More
