Home Truths: A Jaunt Around the Decaying Heart of England

by Bill Murphy

With humor, this text documents the irreversible destruction that has occurred across much of urban England and the English countryside, and the effects this has had on its people. Murphy has gone out into the provinces and painted a picture of just how dreadful England has become. He began early in 1999 and spent a grueling 8 months examining over 30 English towns and cities which his research had suggested would stand up to the charge of "decay." None of them let him down.

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

Bill Murphy was born in Cork City Ireland. He began his career in Cork while training with the I.O.R.C and then moved to Dublin where he continued his training with the Focus Theatre . Bill is a very much sought after actor and voice over Artist and has worked in theatre and film all over the world. Based in Dublin and London he has worked with many of our best known actors.

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Reviews

[Alan · Rating 2 out of 5]

a work colleague gave me this to read a few years ago and I remember being entertained by the caustic humour but the man is hateful and a prat, always looking for things to prove his point (the subtitle says it all: A Jaunt Around the Decaying Heart of Britain). It's just chav-baiting albeit sometimes funny. e.g. (from the amazon precis): in Braintree he witnesses a fight between a traffic warden and a pregnant woman holding "a cigarette in one hand and a baby in the other".
Those who look for the worst will love it.