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Notwithstanding

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099542025

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £9.99

Notwithstanding

  • Stories from an English Village

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. Based on de Bernières' recollections of the village he grew up in, Notwithstanding is a funny and moving depiction of a charming vanished England.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099542025

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A funny, astute and moving depiction of a charming vanished England

    Corrine Buxton, BBC Countryfile

  • A delightful collection...exquisitely told

    Clare Colvin, Daily Mail

  • Comic, benignly forgiving and shot through with threads of nostalgic regret

    Independent

  • A timely examination of the charming and, at time, heart-wrenchingly sad aspects of English village life...testament to the rude health of the author's own imagination

    Adam O'Riordan, Financial Times

  • The creator of Captain Corelli is fond of an exotic setting and he has found one in his own backyard... The stories are sketches of lives that settle into the atmosphere of a place and make it unique

    Kate Saunders, The Times

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About the Author

Louis de Bernières

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

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