This book was beyond hilarious. I’ll apologize to the author if I’m wrong to say this-/ but there’s no way this wasn’t an embellishment of the truth. The stories became more and more outlandish as the book went on and it just felt over the top and unbelievable by the end. I’d have enjoyed it more as a fictionalized account, but even that would have been over the top!!

I fondly remember camping as a kid in the 80s and 90s but I can't honestly say we've ever been hit by the amount of disasters that go on in this book.

It also made me want to go camping in my family's old stomping grounds and remember our good and bad times!

This is the very funny account of a decade of camping holidays undertaken by Emma and her very unlucky family. There are so many laugh out loud moments (mainly involving bodily fluids - you have been warned!), and I loved all the 70s references.

I listened to the Audible version which is read by Emma herself, which made it even better!

The perfect summer read!

This was a funny memoir which told of Emma and her family’s summer holidays over a number of years.

I watched the BBC sitcom The Kennedys quite a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I'd noticed that it was inspired by a book and so made a mental note that I needed to read the book. The book is Emma Kennedy's memoirs of family holidays, mostly camping, in the 1970s. The sitcom does have some holiday in it (the old bucket and windy Wales being one) but also just life with her bonkers family in general.

I've only been camping the once, and only overnight so this wasn't nostalgic for me in that sense. Neither the constant roll from one holiday disaster to the next (oh no, how has she crippled herself this time?), but we did have our annual UK holiday, albeit in the 80s for me, so there are some points I relate to. Although the Kennedys also venture to France on several occasions. Ah well, these memories make a holiday and you can laugh at them afterwards. I wouldn't personally say the book was laugh out loud at all - maybe the disasters were too relentless and continuous for me - but it was amusing, light reading. Not as good as the series though. I found her mad Welsh relatives some of the best bits, as well as all the drama meeting one of her mother's uni friends up Newcastle way.

I'm not one for travel books, but I found this book hilarious, and couldn't stop laughing all the way through!