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Overview

Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never turned on the lights, the legislators who behaved like drunken frat boys, the hedgehog lovers, the people who extracted their own teeth), she found that she had a ringside seat at a singular transitional era in British life. The roller-coaster decade of Tony Blair's New Labor government was an increasingly materialistic time when old-world symbols of aristocratic privilege and stiff-upper-lip sensibility collided with modern consumerism, overwrought emotion, and a new (but still unsuccessful) effort to make the trains run on time. Appearing a half-century after Nancy Mitford's classic Noblesse Oblige, Lyall's book is a brilliantly witty account of twenty-first-century Britain that will be recognized as a contemporary classic.

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Lyall is a first-rate reporter, and her book has all the hallmarks of her journalism: it is warm, blunt, confessional, companionable. Which is to say: it is very American. The country she describes, "that oldest and most charismatic of nation-states," as the writer Jan Morris once called it, is cold, private, oblique to the point of opacity and reticent to the point of silence. Which is to say: it is very British. The book's charm lies in the collision of these two facts…an affectionate, joshing effort to understand and explain the British from beak to tail feather.
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In the early 1990s, New York Times publishing reporter Lyall transferred to London "for love." Now she produces the latest in a seemingly inexhaustible genre that dissects British quirks and remarks how peculiar are the inhabitants of that moist little isle. With George Orwell's essay "England Your England" and Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island the best-known examples, Lyall's is an appropriately humorous tale of the struggle to accommodate to her new British way of life and to make sense of the profound culture shock she experienced. But Lyall's observations are neither overly perceptive nor interesting and much of her material is creakingly familiar: aristocrats, for example, pronounce some words differently than their working-class compatriots, Britons love animals (a special memorial honors animals who aided British troops in wartime) and the game of cricket is boring. This is a light, fluffy read that will be enjoyed by first-time visitors to Britain and even a few nostalgic British expatriates. But while Lyall's writing is, as always, witty and tart, it will disappoint those seeking serious analysis or original insights. (Aug.)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393058468
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 8/28/2008
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 1,151,466
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Sarah Lyall grew up in New York City and writes for the New York Times in London. She lives there with her husband, the writer Robert McCrum, and their two daughters.

Table of Contents

Introduction Lunch with an Earl 1

1 Naughty Boys and Rumpy-Pumpy 11

2 Honorable Members 32

3 A Fact Too Good to Check 50

4 Distressed British Nationals 71

5 More than a Game 91

6 Toiletgate 107

7 Lawmakers from Another Planet 126

8 False Modesty 145

9 The Naked Guy and Angle-Grinder Man 164

10 Invasion of the Hedgehog People 181

11 "I Snapped It Out Myself" 193

12 Wine from Weeds 206

13 "By God, Sir, I've Lost My Leg!" 228

14 The Best of the Day 247

Further Reading 265

Index 271

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  • Posted November 11, 2009

    Rue Britannia

    Well-written and amusing take on English society by an American woman now living there with an English husband. She surprises by not being simply flip and funny, which is the usual way of such books, but actually supporting her viewpoints with facts. I docked it one star because a good bit of this is by now pretty familiar stuff, but that's arguably unfair.

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    Posted October 27, 2009

    English as a Second Language

    I've been working with English brands and dating an English man for years, so it seemed only fitting that I read this book. Sarah Lyall clearly paid attention to her surroundings -- although her subjects might not be too happy about that.

    There were some laugh out loud moments, and some often slow moments that lead to a payoff for the sake of understanding just how the English operate (not to say they make sense, but they sound so polite and well intentioned, that you really don't care).

    While I could've skipped the cricket chapter, I enjoyed reading this book, as it hit so close to home.

    If you're planning a trip to England, or considering a move there, definitely read this book. It may keep you from getting beat up in a pub.

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  • Posted October 26, 2009

    A great read!

    This witty and informative book takes an endearing look at the British from the point of view of an American who is married to a British subject. Chapters are organized around themes such as the Houses of Parliament, British Cuisine, and Teeth, to name a few. (I found myself laughing out loud many times during my reading of it. The book is well-written and FUNNY! A great vacation read.

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  • Posted January 1, 2009

    Very entertaining and insightful

    I never write reviews, but in this case I wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The author is very, very funny and writes beautifully--I found myself laughing out loud a LOT. As an American married to a Scot for nearly thirty years, I found answers that have eluded me. For example, whenever we've had friends or relatives visiting from the U.K., they'll kindly offer to wash the dishes, but never rinse off the soap. This has mystified me and not that it even matters (though this very example, mentioned in a review, is what made me buy the book in the first place), but this is precisely the sort of thing she discusses or explains: behaviors I've noticed over the years that I didn't quite understand. And she does it so well. She's amazingly insightful, but it's her pitch-perfect sense of humor that really makes this book such a pleasure to read. It's a fun, fast read that I'd highly recommend, especially for anyone with British spouse and in-laws.

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