The Tent, the Bucket and Me
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  • Published: 15 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781446407776
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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The Tent, the Bucket and Me

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15 May 2010
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25 Jun 2015
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15 May 2010
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Pack your suitcases, we're off! A hilarious Seventies childhood memoir of utterly disastrous family camping trips, now the inspiration for the major BBC series THE KENNEDYS..

Emma Kennedy's hilarious memoir of wet and windy family trips, NOW ADAPTED FOR THE MAJOR BBC ONE SERIES THE KENNEDYS.

For the 70s child, summer holidays didn't mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home and a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves.

For Emma Kennedy, and her mum and dad, disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. Whether it was being swept away by a force ten gale on the Welsh coast or suffering copious amounts of food poisoning on a brave trip to the south of France, family holidays always left them battered and bruised.

But they never gave up. Emma's memoir, The Tent, The Bucket and Me, is a painfully funny reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with sand between your toes.
  • Published: 15 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781446407776
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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About the author

Emma Kennedy

Emma Kennedy is a bestselling author, TV writer, actress and presenter. She has written ten books including her bestselling memoirs, The Tent the Bucket and Me and I Left My Tent in San Francisco. She wrote the Wilma Tenderfoot series for children and has also adapted The Tent the Bucket and Me for the BBC, renamed The Kennedys. The Time of Our Lives is Emma’s second adult novel.

As an actress Emma has appeared in many award-winning comedies including Goodness Gracious Me, People Like Us and Miranda. Emma won Celebrity Masterchef in 2012 and is a Guinness World Record holder.

Emma lives in Surrey with her wife and their dogs, and is hard at work on her next novel. You can follow her on Twitter @EmmaKennedy.

portrait photo of Emma Kennedy

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I Left My Tent in San Francisco
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Praise for The Tent, the Bucket and Me

An invigorating, warm-hearted and often hysterial read ... Brilliant

Time Out

Frighteningly hilarious

DAWN FRENCH

Hilarious

Heat

I love camping! Relive the experience with Emma et al - you can almost taste the smell of the damp canvas

JO BRAND

I love her writing

JON RONSON

It's sly descriptions of chaotic familys are a shrewd commentary on family life

Sainsbury's magazine

Jaw achingly funny from cover to cover ... it will strike a chord with seasoned campers everywhere

Caravan, Motorhome and Camping Mart

Laugh-out-loud funny

Elle

Offers all you could ask for in terms of lovingly remembered period details, comical pratfalls and well-justified swearing

Daily Mail

You really ought to take Emma Kennedy on holiday with you. In book-form only. Never, ever, in person

DAVE GORMAN