I Left my Tent in San Francisco by Emma Kennedy (Ebury Press, £11.99) (From The Northern Echo)

I Left my Tent in San Francisco by Emma Kennedy (Ebury Press, £11.99)

3:29pm Monday 1st August 2011 in Fiction

IT’S 1989, and Emma and best friend Dee head to the US to make their fortune.

But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can’t even get a job in Mc- Donald’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.

Startlingly honest and ridiculously funny, this is the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale.