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A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Bernières that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe, adding that it was 'an immense lunatic asylum'. Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to... read more
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- John
- Uncle Dick
- Mrs Mac
- Alan
- Bessie Maunderfield
- Mrs Griffiths
- Mr Royston Chittock
- Sylvie
- Joan
- Edward
- Jenny
- George
- Archie
- Jack Oak
- Peter
- Brian
- Agatha
- Mrs Rendall
- Hurst
- Mrs Barkwell
- Lizzie
- Godfrey
- Lady Gemma
- Jessie
- Harold
- Polly Wantage
- Catherine
- Sebastian
- De Mandeville
- Mr Entincknapp
- Perry
- Mr Lakin
- Mr Gull
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Table of Contents edit
Archie and the Birds
Obadiah Oak, Mrs Griffiths and the Carol Singers
Archie and the Woman
The Girt Pike
The Auspicious Meeting of the First Two Members of the Famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet
Mrs Mac
Colonel Barkwell, Troodos and the Fish
All My Everlasting Love
The Devil and Bessie Maunderfield
The Auspicious Meeting of the Third Members of the Famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the First Two
Footprint in the Snow
The Happy Death of the General
Rabbit
This Beautiful House
Talking to George
The Auspicious Meeting of the First Member of the Famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the Fourth
Silly Bugger (1)
Silly Bugger (2)
The Broken Heart
The Death and Miss Agatha Feakes
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- Louis de Bernières (Author)
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Publication Date: 2009
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