Full name: A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns

Author: Denis Lipman Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781934848241 1934848247

Denis Lipman left London's East End for Washington, DC more than 20 years ago, but made an annual pilgrimage year after year to visit aging parents, a pair of cantankerous, real-life Cockneys. He endured the visits as best he could. Enter an American wife. Not content with a grin-and-bear-it attitude, she declares that since the trip to England was inevitable, then it was to be enjoyed: see things, go places! Against his will, our expat becomes a tourist in his homeland and discovers it's not so bad after all, certainly better than remembered! Here is a travel memoir more carbolic than bucolic. Discover a place where the sun doesn't always shine, where going to the loo can be an adventure, and where canned beans on toast is a cornerstone of cuisine. Taste the real East End and tour with a colorful group as they rent cottages, host outrageous relatives, meet the locals and discover the English countryside. Similar books: My Love Affair with England by Susan Allen Toth Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner A Fine Romance by Susan Branch England for All Seasons by Susan Allen Toth Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes Men of Salt by Michael Benanav My Holiday in North Korea by Wendy E. Simmons Married to Bhutan by Linda Leaming Ripe for the Picking by Annie Hawes Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski