Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s Screams: Shrieks of Horror and Yelps of Pleasure from Modern Life was published last month. Jobs for the Girls is out in paperback.

For some, there were real, actual holidays. Most of them to somewhere else in Britain. Some of them only for a day: a hot rush on a train, mothers and children flocking down to the beach, fathers to the...

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