Book description
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.
Emma Kennedy is an actress and writer who has appeared in many
award-winning comedy shows including Goodness Gracious Me and
The Smoking Room. In 2003 she won the Comedy Lounge Best
Actress Award for her role in Bill Shakespeare's Italian Job
and in 2005 won the British Television Advertising Craft Award for
Best Actress. She has been writing for TV and radio for over a decade
and has won Sony Awards for the Sunday Format and The Now
Show. Her first book was How to Bring Up Your Parents and
she is also the author of the very popular children's Wilma
Tenderfoot series. Her website is www. emmakennedy. net.
