The Seaside: England's Love Affair
By Madeline Bunting
Granta Books £20
The seaside, as Brits popularly conceive it, promises fun and sun, bucket and spade, fish and chips.
It originated as an English idea, the beach as a place of R and R: to go to the edge of the land for a briny renewal in our island fortress's baptismal moat, as it doesn't quite say on the posters. What it does say is ‘Skegness is so bracing!’
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