Ben Hatch had me in kinks giggling at the escapades of his endearing children, feeling sorry for his wife, Dinah, roaring 'Wha?' at his experiments with a toothbrush, and the tears were genuinely tripping me with his accounts of his Dad's bravery and humour in the last few weeks of his life.
The memoirs were of his five month journey around the UK in the pursuit of a Frommers travel guide.
My favorite bit? Ben scaring Dinah in Craster Tower. I can chuckle because I've been there and I felt I was in the car with them experiencing every laugh, 'smell', and bump.
I haven't read a travel memoir in years - the last one being 'McCarthy's Bar' - and this is up there as one of the funniest and most reflective memoirs I have ever read.
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