The Tent, The Bucket And Me by Emma Kennedy

A warm, sharply funny childhood memoir set in 1970s Britain, following a narrator’s awkward and affectionate recollections of family life, schoolyards and seaside holidays spent in a tent with a bucket for sandcastles. Through a string of comic vignettes about eccentric parents, bickering siblings and small humiliations, it captures the petty dramas, vivid imaginations and tiny triumphs that shape a young girl's world. Equal parts nostalgic and observational, the book turns domestic chaos into witty, humane stories about growing up.

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