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Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller
“An exquisite, hilarious and devastating dissection.” —Malcolm Gladwell
Trade Review"[A] delectably merciless (yet affectionate) taxonomy." -- Liesl Schillinger - Vogue
"Lyall is a first-rate reporter, and her book has all the hallmarks of her journalism: it is warm, blunt, confessional, companionable.… [She] is at her tart, observant best." -- Matt Weiland - New York Times Book Review
"A razor-sharp, hilarious, wickedly insightful, decidedly biased account." -- Graydon Carter
"Gleefully funny." -- Judith Newman - People
"Because Lyall is rather witty and understated herself, as well as a dogged, meticulous reporter, the result is a book that is both funny and illuminating." -- Laurie Hertzel - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Sarah Lyall is the wittiest observer of the English and their curious habits. Now she’s written a book that takes her game to an entirely new level. It’s funny, it’s delightful and anyone with even a passing interest in these strange people should read it." -- Michael Lewis
"By turns wry, mordant, affectionate, bitter and sweet. I never miss any of Sarah Lyall’s dispatches because, while they manage to remind me why I left, they also contrive to make me feel occasionally homesick." -- Christopher Hitchens
"Sarah Lyall brings all the virtues of the best American journalism, including accuracy, to the task of analysing all the vices of British society, including hypocrisy, venality and hopeless confusion about sex. In addition to its importance as a sociological treatise,
The Anglo Files is an indispensable guide to all the best true stories about the country to which she has emigrated, and in which she will now be hailed as one of its supreme analysts, preparatory to her being executed on Tower Green." -- Clive James
"An entertaining, indeed delightful, book. If the exchange rate makes going there impossible, read this. It’s cheaper and almost as much fun." -- Jeff Simon - Buffalo News
"A superb social and cultural anthropology by a reporter who has lived among her subjects without losing her sense of wonder for them. It is beautifully written, always insightful, and often hilarious. Imagine Margaret Mead channeling Jon Stewart and you have Sarah Lyall." -- Eric Lax
