![]() ![]() ![]() Arriving in Dover in the 1970s, he encounters a boarding house that makes Fawlty Towers seem like a documentary. It is not so much the rolling hills of Yorkshire or the granite city of Aberdeen that he extols, but the resilience and quirkiness of the natives. The joy of Bryson’s book is in the fine, personal detail. It helps, of course, that Bryson’s book was a love letter to the United Kingdom, detailing his own experience of visiting in 1973 and witnessing first-hand the peculiarities of everyday life in a sovereign state that was undergoing huge cultural changes. Although American author Bill Bryson had already published several books before the end of the 20th century, it was his autobiographical Notes from a Small Island that catapulted him into the British consciousness in 1996. ![]()
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