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 A Field Guide to the British - Sarah Lyall
 A Field Guide to the British - Sarah Lyall ... Quercus Publishing PlcNewest Review: ... striking to Americans - the stiff upper lip and its post-Diana demise, the art of superior self-depreciation, the frugality ... more ... and making-do, drinking and the service without a smile.
There are two splendid chapters on Parliament (with particular attention paid to women in the House of Commons and rather endearingly American, earnest indignation at sexist attitudes) and the House of Lords and its demise and one on the British love of the animals that had me really nodding and laughing while reading the absurd and wonderful account of the hedgehog infestation and rescue saga in the Western Isles.
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A Field Guide to the British - Sarah Lyall: Strange English Ways (918 words)
by - written on 11/12/08 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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I have a fascination - one that borders on an unhealthy obsession - with books written about the British: and that fascination is clearly, not just a personal foible of mine as such books are uncannily common: from travelogues to memoirs, hefty historical analyses to short satirical sketches, the subject of Britishness (and Englishness) carries a seemingly endless fascination for natives and foreigners alike. Many of those books, somehow expectedly, are written by Americans as so is "The Field Guide" by Sarah Lyall, an American journalist who married a Brit and came here for love in the mid/late 90's. Exactly like I did, though I am sure that I move ... Read the complete review
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