Books by Emma Kennedy

''Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It''s a lovely LOVELY book'' Marian Keyes''This book made me cry'' Sara Cox After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself floundering, unable to make peace with the complex, charismatic woman who had been her mum. And then they found the letters . . .This heartbreakingly funny book about the impact of discovering lost letters is a celebration of correspondence; those lost acts of penned love, the vivid snapshots in time scattered back through a life.It is also about a childhood shrouded in shame, the lies Brenda told her family, the madness that set in, and ultimately what it means to be a daughter and a mother. Finally, Emma allows herself to explore what she couldn''t while she was growing up: the question of who her mother really was.''This honest, insightful book is a touching tribute to her complex, inimitable mother''Daily Express''Remarkable'' Dawn French''A beautiful, hilarious and bittersweet book'' Mel Giedroyc

''Emma Kennedy''s books are as funny, warm and life-inspiring as she is'' Jenny Colgan''An excellent read. I loved all the characters'' Claudia Winkleman''A warm, funny and truly life-affirming read. ****'' Heat ________________ Three women. Two unforgettable road trips. Wherever you are in life, it''s never too late to find yourself. Best friends Agnes and Bea decide to embark on one last adventure before their adult lives begin. For Agnes''s mother Florence, a fresh chapter is starting as her youngest flies the nest and her marriage settles into a new routine. But she can''t help feeling that something is missing. As Agnes travels to London and Florence follows her heart to Europe, both will discover a world of possibilities they never could have dreamed of... Full of warmth, wit and characters who will steal your heart, The Never-Ending Summer is 2021''s perfect escape. _______________________ Praise for Emma Kennedy and The Things We Left Unsaid: ''A rich treat'' Jane Fallon ''Moving and magnificent'' Claire Balding ''A joyous book'' Ruth Jones ''A beautiful novel... so tender and thoughtful. I loved it'' Marian Keyes ''Wonderful'' Mary Berry

I cried and know that when I read this again and again I'll cry each time.''A real and full story that was completely relatable.''An excellent read and I would certainly recommend it.''The sense of time and place was very authentic.''I loved the characters and both them and London felt so alive.

From the author of bestselling The Tent, The Bucket and Me, now a BBC1 comedy series, THE KENNEDYS.As the youngest in a family of six, all eleven-year-old Anthony wants is a pair of shoes to call his own. Instead he s condemned to wear a pair of hand-me-down wellies that may or may not be haunted.When war comes to his small, impoverished mining village, life starts to get more exciting: there are American soldiers, his sister has joined the WAAF Mrs Reece even has a banana! But it is only when a foreign plane crashes into the Welsh hillside that Anthony and his gang discover what war is really about

It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's.Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape to scrape, surviving on their wits and the kindness of strangers. Bad luck and misfortune throw everything their way - snakes, earthquakes, black magic and incontinent dogs. They even get kidnapped by a sex-crazed midget in a Ferrari. This never happened to Jack Kerouac.A startlingly honest and ridiculously funny book, I Left My Tent in San Francisco tells the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale.

Emma Kennedy's hilarious memoir of wet and windy family trips, NOW ADAPTED FOR THE MAJOR BBC ONE SERIES THE KENNEDYS. For the 70s child, summer holidays didn't mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home and a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves. For Emma Kennedy, and her mum and dad, disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. Whether it was being swept away by a force ten gale on the Welsh coast or suffering copious amounts of food poisoning on a brave trip to the south of France, family holidays always left them battered and bruised.But they never gave up. Emma's memoir, The Tent, The Bucket and Me, is a painfully funny reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with sand between your toes.