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She addresses the British fascination with bottoms and genuinely ambiguous sexuality (when it comes to public school graduates); their rowdy politics in the House of Commons and bizarre ones in the House of Lords; their reverence for genuine eccentricity; the love of hedgehogs and cricket held by many; their stoic and at times unhealthily repressed attitudes and false modesties. She even devotes a chapter to dentistry.

I'd love to read what her husband would say about Americans, but not the same since he did not try to live in the U.S. Must find such a book by someone else.]]>