You Are Awful (But I Like You)

You Are Awful (But I Like You)

Travels Through Unloved Britain

Summary

Would you cheer if they sent you to Coventry?

Could you stick up for Stoke or big-up Bracknell?


Can you handle the thrill of Rhyl, the heaven of Hull or the mirth of Tydfil?


In You are Awful, Tim Moore drives his Austin Maestro round all the places on our beloved island that nobody wants to go to – our most miserable towns, shonkiest hotels, scariest pubs, and silliest sea zoos...

But as the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds he finds himself oddly smitten, and the result is a rousing, nostalgic celebration of mad, bad But I Like You Britain.

Reviews

  • Funny and squirmingly vivid
    Daily Telegraph

About the author

Tim Moore

Tim Moore’s writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of Gironimo!, French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps, Nul Points, I Believe In Yesterday and You Are Awful (But I Like You). He lives in London.
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