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.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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