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Emma Kennedy
Paperback | Pages: 346 pages Rating: 4.05 | 2377 Users | 280 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Tent, the Bucket and Me |
| ISBN: | 0091926785 (ISBN13: 9780091926786) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Growing up in the Seventies, we were on the brink of the modern age. But despite a brave new world of Casio hand-held calculators and digital watches, one thing remained the same: the family holiday. For the Seventies child, summer holidays didn't mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home and a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves.For Emma Kennedy, and her mum and dad, disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. Whether it was swept away by a force ten gale on the Welsh coast or suffering copious amounts of food poisoning on a brave trip to the south of France, family holidays always
left them battered and bruised.
But they never gave up. Emma's memoir, The Tent, the Bucket and Me,
is a painfully funny reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with sand between your toes.
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| Title | : | The Tent, the Bucket and Me |
| Author | : | Emma Kennedy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 346 pages |
| Published | : | March 26th 2009 by Ebury Press (first published January 1st 2009) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Humor. Travel. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Comedy. Biography Memoir |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 2377 Users | 280 ReviewsCrit About Books The Tent, the Bucket and Me
I loved every minute of this book, it eked out the last drops of Summer for me (I realise I'm in denial there!). There were many times reading this book, where I irritated my husband by actually guffawing! It isn't some piece of great literature, but it is marvellous.You know how it's often claimed that books are "laugh out loud" and then when you come to read them they're nothing of the sort, not even a snigger? This book actually did make me laugh out loud. And I was on the train at the time. And I got some very odd looks. But anyway, if these stories are true then they must have been just about the unluckiest family to ever go on holiday anywhere. I've never been camping but as a kid I was forced to spend many summer holidays stuck in a tiny caravan with
A very funny account from a girls perspective of her family's annual camping trips. A quick read that makes you laugh. The parents and the girl are likable without being too good to be true.
I laughed until I could not breathe. I would have died laughing except that I wanted to finish the book.
I laughed until I could not breathe. I would have died laughing except that I wanted to finish the book.
Very funny- I think that the author describes her experiences in such a way that you can imagine being on holiday with her. Brilliant!
Enough material for a pretty good twenty minute standup slot, padded out to a quite ludicrous length - I'd managed to procure myself an ex-library Large Print edition which managed to stretch the ordeal out to almost 500pp of agony.Essentially the young Emma Kennedy goes on holiday with her parents each year in the 1970s, and it's always a disaster. But not usually an actual interesting disaster, oh no; generally it'll be something like "it rained heavily all night" or "we ate some dodgy
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