Notwithstanding Author:Louis de Bernières 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 t... more »o 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.
Not so much a novel as a collection of character studies of the inhabitants of a small English village. Sweetly, gentle prose to be lingered over, an utterly charming read.