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Title: Why I left England
Review: Ah, England. A country full of lovely people...with the depressing, lethal trait of wanting to feel socially superior to someone else. Enter this book of 200-word character portraits of such archetypes as the Politically Correct Vicar (pastor) or the Uninvited Weekend Guest, collected from the pages of the Telegraph newspaper.You have to ask yourself, what is the point? Who would read this, and why? I think the answer is, people who want to feel part of a superior social group but are not. You can be sure that the real toffs feel no need to read this drivel, and the Telegraph is rarely read by what one would call 'blue-collar' workers, so that leaves a swathe of middle-class people who think that by snickering at these portraits they are somehow superior. OK, so I know it's a little bit of fun, but it just utterly depressed me.I'm awarding this book two stars solely because of the excellent illustrations, by Sue Macartney-Snape. Otherwise, drivel.
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