You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain - Softcover

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It began with an accidental daytrip to an intriguingly awful resort on the Thames Estuary, and ended 3,812 miles later: one man's journey through deep-fried, brownfield, poundshop Britain, a crash course in urban blight, deranged civic planning and commercial eccentricity. Following an itinerary drawn up from surveys, polls, reviews and lazy personal prejudice, Tim Moore goes to all the places that nobody wants to go to - the bleakest towns, the shonkiest hotels, the scariest pubs, the silliest sea zoos. He visits the grid reference adjudged by the Ordnance Survey to be the least interesting point in Britain, and is chased out of the new town twice crowned Scotland's Most Dismal Place. His palate is flayed alive by horrific regional foodstuffs, his ears shrivelled by the 358 least loved tracks in the history of native popular music. With his progress entrusted to our motor industry's fittingly hopeless finale, he comes to learn that Britain seems very much larger when you're driving around it in a Bulgarian-built Austin Maestro.

Yet as the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds, so it evolves into something much more stirring: a nostalgic celebration of our magnificent mercantile pomp, and an angry requiem for a golden age of cheerily homespun c**p culture being swept aside by the faceless, soul-stripping forces of Tesco-town globalisation.

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'Funny and squirmingly vivid ...affectionate, wistful and despairing'
--Telegraph

Tim Moore's sharp and witty book...is a pilgrimage to the most derelict, unlovable and forlorn parts of Britain --Independent on Sunday

There's true affection in the descriptions of bypasses, roundabouts and rainy caravan parks --Daily Mail
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A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home - Great Britain

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 0224090119
  • ISBN 13 9780224090117
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages288
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