The Tent, the Bucket and Me Audiobook (Free)

For the 70s child, summer season holidays didn’t mean the joy of CentreParcs or the elegance of the Tuscan villa. They designed being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for any house and a bucket for the necessities, we would tripped on new adventures every year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves.

For Emma Kennedy, and her mum and father, disaster always came along for the trip no matter where they went. Whether it was being swept apart by a force ten gale within the Welsh coast or suffering copious levels of food poisoning on the brave trip to the south of France, family members holidays always left them battered and bruised.

But they by no means quit. Emma’s memoir, The Tent, The Bucket and Me, is definitely a painfully funny reminder of precisely what it was prefer to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with fine sand between your feet.