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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.
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