Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village
Paperback Published on: 06/05/2010
Price: £10.99
Synopsis
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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9780099542025
- Number of pages: 400
- Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 27 mm
- Weight: 276g
- Languages: English
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Charming
This is a novel made up of 20 interlinking short stories.
The author meanders through a collection of delightfully eccentric characters, telling each of t... READ MORE
Delightfully English!
My first book from this author. When I found out this was a collection of short stories it rather put me off. For some reason I have never been a fan...
O... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
This book is a collection of short stories involving characters from a small rural village in the English countryside.I myself come from a small village in... READ MORE
De Berniere's best yet?
A book of short stories one might say, never works, yet DeBerniers series of inter-connected stories creates a novel worthy of enchanted praise. Its light ... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
Notwithstanding is a village and these are 20 short stories about it, with not a make-weight standing amongst them.They reveal the happenings involving tho... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
In this collection of inter-woven short stories about the fictional village of Notwithstanding, deBerniere's has managed to create a vivid and endearing po... READ MORE
Absolutely riveting!
This is not Louis de Bernieres as you may be expecting from Captain Corelli's Mandolin or Birds Without Wings. The sense of yearning nostalgia is still the... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
Whimsical and charming, these loosely related tales of village life transport the reader to a bucolic England which, as De BerniÈres himself acknowledges, ... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
Louis de Berniere conjures up wonderfully idiosyncratic characters and weaves them into the countryside of yesteryear. I found it an altogether delightful ... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
A book of short stories one might say, never works, yet DeBerniers series of inter-connected stories creates a novel worthy of enchanted praise. Its light ... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
REVIEW ONE
Notwithstanding is a village and these are 20 short stories about it, with not a make-weight standing amongst them.
They reveal the happenings... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
At first I wasn't sure what to think of this book, because I've never really come across a book of short stories that I felt really works. But, once I was ... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
Having written several stunning novels set abroad, De Bernieres now sets his sights on a quintessentially English theme, that of village life in times gone... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
Ever thought of trying to pour a gallon into a pint pot? Of course not - silly question.But imagine being selected to review Notwithstanding, this brillian... READ MORE
Notwithstanding
I have to say I was a little sceptical about reading Notwithstanding, it seemed on first impression to be a series of short stories. It is more like a seri... READ MORE
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