Notwithstanding
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099542025
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99

Notwithstanding

Stories from an English Village

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A funny and heartbreaking new book from one of Britain's favourite and bestselling writers.

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.
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099542025
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Louis de Bernieres

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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Also by Louis de Bernieres

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Labels and Other Stories
So Much Life Left Over
The Autumn of the Ace
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
Light Over Liskeard
Of Love and Desire
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Praise for Notwithstanding

In these stories de Bernieres casts a loveing eye on the world we have lost and invites you to share its intimacies

Allan Massie, Scotsman

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

Independent

A delightful collection...exquisitely told

Clare Colvin, Daily Mail

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

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