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Fifteen years ago, Joe Bennett left England for a
holiday. Now it's time to come back. But how is the England of his
memory different from the England of the motorway? Identikit High
Streets, imported cheeriness ('Welcome to Sunny Grimsby!'), chicken
tikka poker machine pubs - things aren't what they used to be. But the
longer Joe travels, the more he wonders whether things were ever what
they used to be in England. Even a century ago, H. V. Morton, the
nation's most celebrated eulogiser, was "In Search of England".
Criss-crossing the country by varying means of transport and with
varying degrees of enthusiasm, Joe Bennett delivers a dazzlingly funny
and poignant portrait of his homeland - part love letter, part eulogy
and part diatribe, it is a wonderful follow-up to the acclaimed "Land
of Two Halves" and establishes him as one of our most engaging travel
writers.
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