The Tent, The Bucket and Me
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Emma Kennedy's hilarious memoir recounts the spectacularly disastrous family camping holidays of her 1970s childhood. With a father determined to prove his adventurous credentials and a mother utterly unsuited to life under canvas, these trips to France and Wales became legendary exercises in comic misfortune.
From leaking tents and inedible meals to stolen camping equipment and encounters with hostile locals, Kennedy chronicles each calamity with warmth and wit. Her affectionate portraits of her well-meaning but hopelessly ill-prepared parents transform everyday camping disasters into laugh-out-loud comedy, whilst capturing the peculiar British determination to soldier on regardless of mounting evidence that perhaps a nice hotel might be preferable.
A nostalgic and side-splitting tribute to family holidays and the resilience required to survive them.
