The Tent, the Bucket and Me, Emma Kennedy
The Tent, the Bucket and Me, Emma Kennedy
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The Tent, the Bucket and Me

Author: Emma Kennedy

Narrator: Emma Kennedy

Unabridged: 12 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ebury Digital

Published: 06/25/2015

Synopsis

For the 70s 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.

About Emma Kennedy

Emma Kennedy is a prolific author, screenwriter, actress and presenter. She wrote the BBC1 series The Kennedys, which was an adaptation of her best-selling book The Tent, the Bucket and Me and was a Radio Times Comedy Champion Award winner. She has won Celebrity Masterchef and is a Guinness World Record Holder.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Catherine on March 30, 2012

I laughed until I could not breathe. I would have died laughing except that I wanted to finish the book.......more

Goodreads review by Lynne on August 04, 2016

I'm worried there might be something wrong with me. The majority of people, when speaking or writing about this book, describe it as laugh-out-loud. I'm afraid that, whilst I'll admit that some of the author's family escapades were amusing in places, I didn't exactly find them hilarious. I don't kno......more

Goodreads review by Pam on October 10, 2015

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.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on October 23, 2019

funny memoir of holidays in the tent and aboard and all the mishaps......more

Goodreads review by Clare on October 10, 2017

Listened to in audio format. This is an hilarious book written by Emma Kennedy about her and her parents calamitous camping holidays in the UK and France. This book reminded me of family holidays where everything that could go wrong did. They are terrible at the time but funny when you are safely hom......more

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Frighteningly hilarious

An invigorating, warm-hearted and often hysterial read ... Brilliant Time Out

I love her writing

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

I love camping! Relive the experience with Emma et al - you can almost taste the smell of the damp canvas

Laugh-out-loud funny Elle

Hilarious Heat

You really ought to take Emma Kennedy on holiday with you. In book-form only. Never, ever, in person

It's sly descriptions of chaotic familys are a shrewd commentary on family life Sainsbury's magazine

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