His stage play, A Month of Sundays, won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Comedy in 1987. Larbey himself adapted the play for a Canadian-produced film version in 1989, starring Hume Cronyn
[on choosing Surbiton as the setting for The Good Life (1975)] To be honest, we were just looking for something that sounded like suburbia in big capital letters. We just picked it at random.