I Left My Tent in San Francisco, Emma Kennedy
I Left My Tent in San Francisco, Emma Kennedy
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I Left My Tent in San Francisco

Author: Emma Kennedy

Narrator: Emma Kennedy

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ebury Digital

Published: 06/25/2015


Synopsis

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.

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

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 Martin on August 11, 2011

I absolutely loved This book, it was laughs on almost every page right from the start. I thought I was a bit accident prone and clumsy and experienced bad luck until I read this account of Emma Kennedy's journey across America from San Francisco to New York along with her best friend from University......more

Goodreads review by Sahina on October 05, 2015

I got this book in the Goodreads lovely giveaway for free and at first after reading the blurb, I wasn't sold on the story but I was to be proved totally wrong! This was an amazing book, I couldn't put it down and when I did I had to pick it right back up at any available moment. It follows the stor......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on August 10, 2014

I was slightly disappointed by this book. Emma Kennedy is usually very funny but this book lacked her usual spark. The story is that of two naive young English girls who go to America and then proceed to make a pigs ear of everything. They went in their early twenties. I went for the first time when......more

Goodreads review by Polly on July 20, 2018

2 1/2 stars...I really enjoyed Emma Kennedy’s tent and bucket book. But this was just nowhere near as good, funny or entertaining. I feel that it wasn’t enough good stuff to fill a book, there wasn’t always a great sense of place or atmosphere. It was a bit lazy and, frankly dull in places. I couldn......more

Goodreads review by Clare on October 23, 2018

Listened to in audio format. I bought this after enjoying Emma Kennedy's first book The Tent, the bucket and me. I enjoyed listening to I Left My Tent in San Francisco but it did not leave me crying with laughter as the first book. Emma and her best friend Dee decided to travel to San Francisco for 4......more


Quotes

I love her writing Jon Ronson

Hilarious Heat

The female Bill Bryson... a very funny read... brilliant. Radio Five Live