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Title: NOTWITHSTANDING
STORIES FROM AN ENGLISH VILLAGE
By: Louis de Bernieres
Format: Paperback

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 1846553318
ISBN 13: 9781846553318
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 1 October, 2009
Pages: 288
Description: Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where the author grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth, he brings us in Notwithstanding stories of a vanished England which will delight readers of his much-loved novels.
Synopsis: A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Bernieres that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe, adding that it was 'an immense lunatic asylum'. 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 a 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 other's stories and painting a picture of an entire community. Here we find the atmosphere of those times as it was in the countryside.Notwithstanding is not about an imagined idyll; it is about people who are worth remembering, whose lives are worth celebrating, and who would otherwise have been forgotten.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Returns: Returnable
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