Park and Ride: Adventures in Suburbia - Softcover

Sawyer, Miranda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034911319X ISBN 13: 9780349113197

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2001

Synopsis

This is the Britain of motorways and heritage centres, of campaigning housewives and executive housing estates, of boy racers and Essex girls, of Cheshire wives and Scottish golfers. Readers are taken for an evening at a prestigious hotel night-club, a day in Britain's "most average town," a few hours with Staffordshire's jet-set, and a lovely Sunday drive to see the new B&Q on the bypass. This is not the Britain that is green and pleasant, urban and dangerous, historic and scenic—this is the rest of it, the vast swathes of in-betweeny land, the multiplexed, motorwayed, mind-your-manners, Great British Experience.

About this title

About the Author:

An award-winning feature journalist, Miranda Sawyer spent her formative years in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in a white ra-ra skirt and turquoise mascara. She presented the Art Marathon on BBC2 and co-presented Big Mouth with Tony Parsons in 1996. This is her first book.

Review:

A great success...Such annihilation has been performed before. John Osborne did it. Sid Vicious was there. But this is prime stuff INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY A marketing triumph. These are the people next door, and it's hugely satisfying to have their eccentricities highlighted, their foibles gently exposed and have a good laugh at them - and ourselves SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY Like Victoria Wood she has a talent for illuminating the absurdities of how ordinary people live their ordinary lives OBSERVER 'Miranda Sawyer's suburban memoir PARK AND RIDE was as excellent as we expect from this most talented young person Julie Burchill, GUARDIAN, Books of the Year

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 034911319X
• ISBN 13: 9780349113197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320