Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernières

Warm, eccentric stories from an imagined English village

Very Good Condition - Light cover rubbing, minor corner creases and browned page edges.

In the village of Notwithstanding, ordinary life is made memorable by people whose peculiarities become part of the community's shared story. Louis de Bernières draws on the atmosphere of an English village to bring together encounters that are funny, affectionate and sometimes quietly sad. Individual lives overlap through neighbours, local habits, animals and the passage of time, building a portrait larger than any single character. Beneath the humour lies an awareness of change and of the things that disappear when a place loses its familiar ways. This collection celebrates the richness of apparently uneventful lives, finding surprising drama and tenderness in the small world of a village and its inhabitants.