Notwithstanding is a short story collection by British author Louis de Bernières.

Published in 2009, it was inspired by Wormley, the Surrey village in which he grew up during the 1960s and 1970s.

[1] In the Afterword to the collection, Louis de Bernières addresses the nation.

He looks back wistfully to a time when "Villages were proper communities", with pubs and shops and a rectory "with a proper rector in it".

The stories in Notwithstanding, he explains, with just a hint of a huff, are a celebration of the "quirky people" he remembers from his childhood in Surrey: "the belligerent spinsters, the naked generals, the fudge-makers, the people who talked to spiders".