Promotional Information

'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times

Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers

About the Author

Michael Booth is the author of six books, including the international bestseller, The Almost Nearly Perfect People, winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers award for Book of the Year, and Sushi and Beyond, which won the Guild of Food Writers award.

Reviews

Comprehensive and occasionally downright hilarious... I was laughing out loud
*Observer*

An affectionate and informative study of a region.
*Sunday Times*

[An] entertaining, warts-and-all, English expat look at the Nordic miracle.
*Daily Telegraph*

A thoroughly entertaining read, written brilliantly
*Literary Review*

A welcome rejoinder to those who cling to the idea of the Nordic region as a promised land...the substance, more often than not, is spot on.
*Financial Times*