# Notwithstanding

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- Book: [Notwithstanding](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-de-bernieres/notwithstanding) ([Notwithstanding.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-de-bernieres/notwithstanding.md))
- Authors: [Louis de Bernières](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-de-bernieres)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-202-5
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2010-05-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.