Notwithstanding
Subtitle: stories from an English village
By: Louis de Bernieres
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781846553318
Subjects: Villages; British National characteristics; Fiction
Description: A collection of stories of a vanished English village 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Archie and the birds; title: Obadiah Oak, Mrs Griffiths and the carol singers; title: Archie and the woman; title: The Girt pike; title: The auspicious meeting of the first two members of the famous notwithstanding wind quartet; title: Mrs Mac; title: Colonel Barkwell, Troodos and the fish; title: All my everlasting love; title: The devil and Bessie Maunderfield; title: The auspicious meeting of the third member of the famous notwithstanding wind quartet with the frist two; title: Footprint in the snow; title: The happy death of the general; title: Rabbit; title: This beautiful house; title: Talking to George; title: The auspicious meeting of the first member of the famous notwithstanding wind quartet with the fourth; title: Silly bugger (1); title: Silly bugger (2); title: The broken heart; title: The death of Miss Agatha Feakes.