I Left My Tent in San Francisco

Emma Kennedy

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Published by Ebury Press, part of Ebury Publishing

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EAN: 9780091935955
Published: 5 May 2011

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It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's.

Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape to scrape, surviving on their wits and the kindness of strangers. Bad luck and misfortune throw everything their way - snakes, earthquakes, black magic and incontinent dogs. They even get kidnapped by a sex-crazed midget in a Ferrari. This never happened to Jack Kerouac.

Startlingly honest and ridiculously funny, I Left My Tent in San Francisco is the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale.

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Heart warming and very funny!

I couldn't wait to read this, having laughed my socks off to The Tent, The Bucket and Me. I wasn't disappointed as Emma sets out hilariously unprepared for her trip to the US, and stumbles from one disaster to the next. It's also a very heart warming story of friendship with her best friend from Uni, and of her accident prone family.
Posted 30 Aug 11 by Mr Fred Lawler
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Emma Kennedy is an actress and writer who has appeared in many award-winning comedy shows including Goodness Gracious Me and The Smoking Room. In 2003 she won the Comedy Lounge Best Actress Award for her role in Bill Shakespeare's Italian Job and in 2005 won the British Television Advertising Craft Award for Best Actress. She has been writing for TV and radio for over a decade and has won Sony Awards for the Sunday Format and The Now Show. Her first book was How to Bring Up Your Parents and she is also the author of the very popular children's Wilma Tenderfoot series. Her website is www.emmakennedy.net.

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