In his most recent novel, A Partisan’s Daughter, Louis de Bernières offers this cameo on the ‘shaky isles’:“New Zealand is a lovely place. It’s just like England was when I was young, full of quiet, decent, humorous people who eat bread and butter and whose clothes don’t quite fit.”
Louis de Bernières, A Partisan’s Daughter (London: Harvill Secker, 2008), 210.
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Image: “humorous people who eat bread and butter…”