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    One Million Tiny Plays About Britain

    By Craig Taylor

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    A Wonder Woman and bride-to-be finds herself worse for wear at the end of a hen night; a funeral director's love of Manchester United proves unhelpful when talking to the bereaved; two overly-vigilant mothers wrestle with their paranoia in the queue for Santa's Grotto; a widow recounts her disastrous return to the world of dating and a father realises that his son is growing away from him as he helps him tie his football boots.

    In these snippets of overheard conversations from across the length and breadth of the country, Craig Taylor captures the state we're in with humour and pathos and perfect timing. Laugh-out-loud funny, and sometimes heartbreakingly moving, these tiny plays in which every one of us could have a starring role are little windows into other people's lives that reveal the triumphs, disasters, prejudices, horrors and joys of twenty-first-century life.

    Hugely entertaining and utterly addictive, this is book that can be dipped into or feasted upon in one sitting. It will change the way you listen to the world around you, and train journeys will never be the same again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9781408814307
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    One Million Tiny Plays About Britain
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    Craig Taylor

    Craig Taylor's non-fiction has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times and the Globe and Mail. His fiction has appeared in the Mississippi Review. He wrote One Million Tiny Plays About Britain for the Guardian's Weekend magazine for several years. Craig publishes Hamish Hamilton's Five Dials magazine as well as his own photocopied magazines, including The Review of Everything I've Ever Encountered and Dark Tales of Clapham. His first book, Return To Akenfield, was published by Granta in 2006, and the play of the novel toured the UK in 2009.

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    • 2/5
      Not very impressed by this. It's an interesting sort of concept -- a bit like a fictionalised "overheard in New York" (or wherever), but the selection of which 'plays' to put in was very... unexciting. They do reveal a lot of the prejudices that still exist in Britain -- some readers may feel uncomfortable, seeing themselves exposed, but to be honest I think most of the readers will be more the types who can shake their heads knowingly, believing they don't ever act with prejudice.

      I could've predicted the way each of them went, even the ridiculous ones; in a way, that suggests that the observations are 'accurate', if you can use that word of these anecdotes. Still, they also felt very artificial.
    • 4/5
      Absurd & satirical vignettes about contemporary Britain first published in the Guardian. Very funny indeed.