Park and Ride: Adventures in Suburbia

by Miranda Sawyer | Travel | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0316645753 Global Overview for this book
Registered by herrgirl of Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on 8/31/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by herrgirl from Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Friday, August 31, 2007
Suburbia has long been a source of fascination for journalists and scholars alike. Award-winning journalist Miranda Sawyer offers her take on the subject in Park and Ride: Adventures in Suburbia. "The car is the key to life in the suburbs", Sawyer announces. "There's not much you can do without it." With that insight in mind, Sawyer takes her readers for a ride from Wilmslow where she grew up ("Wilmslow was a pink jumper, white stilettos kind of a town") to Preston (the most average town in Britain), from York (where she goes in search of Britland) to Romford (Essex's youth and drugs mecca).

Sawyer has fun in the suburbs. She explores all kinds of suburban clichés--keeping up appearances and kinky sex, DIY and the passion for property. Suburbia is a place Sawyer knows, and the story of her childhood and adolescence there frames this loose commentary on everyday life in Blair's Britain.

Journal Entry 2 by herrgirl from Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Passing this on to plum-crazy, as it's on her wishlist. Hope you enjoy it!

Journal Entry 3 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, November 30, 2007
Thank you so much for this book herrgirl, especially as I wasn't able to send you the book you wanted in return. It is much appreciated & I will be keeping an eye on your wishlist & hope to be able to return the favour in the near future.....thanks again!

Journal Entry 4 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, December 29, 2007
While I didn't find this book laugh-out-loud-funny I certainly sniggered alot while reading it as I think anyone who remembers the 1990's will (white stilettos, turquoise mascara & Marbella-orange legs ring any bells?)

Sawyer's tales are amusing & she covers topics from wife-swapping to following the Heritage trail in the same wry manner.

I'd love to know what a reader from outside the UK might make of this take on British Surburbia, so maybe I'll offer it up as a bookring.....

Journal Entry 5 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, April 20, 2008
On it's way to Jive-Monster.

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Journal Entry 6 by Jive-Monster from -- Somewhere in Derbyshire🤷‍♂️, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sent to me for the Garden King OBCZ. Thank you :)

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