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Product details
- ISBN 9781783787197
- Weight: 275g
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 02 May 2024
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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"...a fascinating barometer of the state of the nation right now, in the wake of austerity, Brexit and Covid." - Travis Elborough
England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy beaches, salt marshes, and estuaries cutting deep inland. On these coastal edges England's great holiday resorts grew up, developed in the early eighteenth century originally as spas for medicinal bathing but soon morphing into places of pleasure, entertainment, fantasy and adventure.
Acclaimed writer Madeleine Bunting journeyed clockwise around England from Scarborough to Blackpool to understand the enduring appeal of seaside towns, and what has happened to the golden sands, cold seas and donkey rides of childhood memory. Taking in some forty resorts, staying in hotels, caravans and holiday camps, she swims from their beaches and talks to their residents to delve into their landscapes, histories and contemporary plight.
Madeleine Bunting was for many years a columnist for the Guardian. She is the author of many non-fiction books, including Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, The Plot: A Biography of My Father's English Acre, which won the Portico Prize, and Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey, which was shortlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize and the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year. She has also written two novels, Island Song and Ceremony of Innocence. She lives in London.
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