The Tent, the Bucket and Me

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Pack your suitcases, we're off! The bestselling and hilarious Seventies childhood memoir of wet, windy and utterly disastrous family camping trips, now in massmarket paperback 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 being 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.

Emma Kennedy is an actress and writer who has appeared in many award-winning comedy shows including Goodness Gracious Me and The Smoking Room. In 2003 she won the Comedy Lounge Best Actress Award for her role in Bill Shakespeare's Italian Job and in 2005 won the British Television Advertising Craft Award for Best Actress. She has been writing for TV and radio for over a decade and has won Sony Awards for the Sunday Format and The Now Show. Her first book was How to Bring Up Your Parents and her website is www.emmakennedy.net.

Frighteningly hilarious -- DAWN FRENCH An invigorating, warm-hearted and often hysterial read ... Brilliant * Time Out * I love her writing -- JON RONSON Offers all you could ask for in terms of lovingly remembered period details, comical pratfalls and well-justified swearing * Daily Mail * Jaw achingly funny from cover to cover ... it will strike a chord with seasoned campers everywhere * Caravan, Motorhome and Camping Mart *