I Left My Tent in San Francisco - Softcover

Kennedy, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091935954 ISBN 13: 9780091935955

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2011

Synopsis

More hilarious tales of holiday disaster from the bestselling author of The Tent, The Bucket and Me.
 
It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's.
 
Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape to scrape, surviving on their wits and the kindness of strangers. Bad luck and misfortune throw everything their way -- snakes, earthquakes, black magic and incontinent dogs. They even get kidnapped by a sex-crazed midget in a Ferrari. This never happened to Jack Kerouac.
 
Startlingly honest and ridiculously funny, I Left My Tent in San Francisco is the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale.

About this title

About the Author:

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 she is also the author of the very popular children's Wilma Tenderfoot series.

Review:

"I love her writing" -- Jon Ronson "You really ought to take Emma Kennedy on holiday with you. In book-form only. Never, ever, in person" -- Dave Gorman "Supremely good fun and oozing with warmth and enthusiasm" Heat

About this edition

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0091935954
• ISBN 13: 9780091935955
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320