Daily Mail: A naked general, the lady cricketer with a 12-bore and a village life that’s vanishing for ever.
Words by Louis De Bernieres. Photograph by Jason Bye for the Daily Mail. The Surrey village where I grew up seemed to breed eccentrics. My boyhood memories are peopled by a parade of them. We had a neighbour who kept a menagerie in her house and drove round the country lanes with a piebald goat [...]