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Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth, Louis de Bernieres brings us in "Notwithstanding" stories of a vanished England which will delight readers of his much-loved novels. The English village was a place where an old lady might dress as a man in plus fours and spend her time shooting squirrels with a twelve bore, or keep a vast menagerie in her house. A retired general might give up wearing clothes, a spiritualist might live in a cottage with her sister and the ghost of her husband, and people might think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. De Bernieres' characters roam through the book, appearing in each others' stories and painting a picture of an entire community.
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Notwithstanding : stories from an English village, Louis de Bernières
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- Released
- 2009
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
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- Title
- Notwithstanding : stories from an English village
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Louis de Bernières
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0099542021
- ISBN13
- 9780099542025
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, British Literature, England, English Literature, Villages
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth, Louis de Bernieres brings us in "Notwithstanding" stories of a vanished England which will delight readers of his much-loved novels. The English village was a place where an old lady might dress as a man in plus fours and spend her time shooting squirrels with a twelve bore, or keep a vast menagerie in her house. A retired general might give up wearing clothes, a spiritualist might live in a cottage with her sister and the ghost of her husband, and people might think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. De Bernieres' characters roam through the book, appearing in each others' stories and painting a picture of an entire community.