Notwithstanding

Pages: 282
Published: 2009
Language: English

A collection of short stories and personal essays by Louis de Bernières, largely set in the fictional English village of Hambledon during his own childhood in the 1960s and 70s. The title essay is a memoir piece about growing up as an expat child; other stories range from wartime reminiscences to vignettes of local life, all told with wry wit and elegiac warmth.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Melancholic Reflective Nostalgic

Memoir Short Stories

Louis de Bernières

Louis de Bernieres was born in London in 1954. After graduating in Philosophy from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and passed his MA, with distinction, at the University of London. He has held various jobs: landscape gardener, mechanic, officer cadet at Sandhurst and schoolteacher in both Colombia and England. ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.louisdebernieres.co.uk/about-1.html