Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind

This study of an ordinary town in Northern England is "a thoughtful, sympathetic portrait of white working-class life…essential reading" (Guardian).

What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define England's national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy has remained largely unexamined unt...