Notwithstanding

As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged.

It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentricsa retired colonel who has eschewed clothes, a spiritualist living with the ghost of her husband, and a dog named Archibald Scott-Moncrieffalmost fit in.

In this delightfully evocative collection of stories, in which a young couple falls in and out of love by letter alone, an eleven-year-old boy battles a monstrous fish, and a man of the cloth has a premonition of death, Louis de Bernieres conjures up a rural idyll long since forgotten.

Funny, bittersweet, and deeply felt, Notwithstanding is the bestselling author of Corelli's Mandolin at his most enchanting.