A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns Review
One of the perks of running [...] is that I get my hands on and hear about more Anglophile related books than I used to. A Yank Back To England is my new favorite Brit book and I recommend it to all Anglophiles.
A Yank Back To England is written by Denis Lipman and if that name sounds familiar it’s because Denis and his wife Francis have been contributing British recipes to Anglotopia for the past 6 months. When I heard Denis had a book coming out – I begged for a copy and have been reading it for the last two months (I’m a slow reader and we’ve been very busy).
The book is fantastic – but what’s it all about? Well, Denis is British and has lived in the US or most of his adult life, later marrying his lovely American wife. Denis does not have a particular love for his old country and loves America – however his wife had other ideas and demanded that they attempt to enjoy England when they visited Denis’s family every year.
What follows is an account of a Brit rediscovering England all over again and learning what it means to be British and also American at the same time. You can take the man out of Britain but you can’t take Britain out of the man!
Denis Lipman writes with a wry, sensibly British sense of humor that is occasionally inflected with some Americaness. His writing reminds me quite a bit of Bill Bryson. Denis is a bizarro Bill Bryson – Bill Bryson being an American living in Britain who’s gone native and wrote lovingly about his new and old country – Denis being the Brit who’s settled in America and does the reverse.
The most colorful characters in the book are Denis’s parents who are basically forced to see the sites and sounds of Britain and grumble all along the way, not really understanding why anyone would want to drive an hour away to see another country church.
I really enjoyed reading about their travels across the length and breadth of Britain and when I put the book down, I was left wanting more. Here’s hoping Denis writes another book!
If you’re an Anglophile, you must own this book.
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