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I Left My Tent in San Francisco

By: Emma Kennedy
Narrated by: Emma Kennedy
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About this listen

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.

 North America Travel Writing & Commentary United States Funny Feel-Good Thought-Provoking Witty

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Critic reviews

I love her writing
Hilarious
The female Bill Bryson... a very funny read... brilliant. (Christian O'Connell)
All stars
Most relevant
Couldn’t stop laughing and Emma read the book brilliantly. What happened to them you couldn’t make up!

Hilarious book

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Incapacitatinly funny I love to listen to audio books when I'm cleaning the time goes quicker.I got nothing done ,instead of hovering the stairs i sat there in histericks.Fantastic please let there be another

Phew

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I didn't enjoy this book half as much as I did the tent, the bucket and me. As another reviewer mentioned, the constant change of volume was irritating and nearly made me give up listening to it. One minute her voice is so low you can barely hear it, the next it is booming in an over the top dramatic style.

Not as enjoyable as the last...

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I laughed all the way through. So many paralles with my wife's US experiences. Beautifully written and narrated.

A laugh from beginning to end

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What a cracking book, I roared and laughed out loud - Emma is hysterical, I would definitely recommend this book.

Emma please write another book!!

Laughed out loud!!

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