- Publisher: Unbound
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 196x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781800180505
- Product code: 531715
A Year in the Life
Adventures in British Subcultures
Lucy Leonelli New Paperback
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Writing with wit, warmth and sincerity, Lucy Leonelli shares an account of the year she spent immersing herself in 26 different UK subcultures, one for each letter of the alphabet. Occasionally out of her comfort zone yet always seeking commonality, she experienced life with people including aristocrats, LARPers, trainspotters and wiccans and here reveals their shared themes and aspirations.
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After nearly a decade of dutifully climbing the corporate ladder to become a partner in a headhunting firm, Lucy Leonelli was feeling restless in a life that was seemingly mapped out for her, and she could not shake the sense that she was missing out on something... something out there.
Realising that the answer was right in front of her - in a country so full of clandestine communities and colourful, eccentric characters - Lucy made the daring decision to hit the pause button on her career and hang up her suit in favour of a year exploring twenty-six wildly different subcultures.
Over the next twelve months, she lived with battle re-enactors, circus performers, hill baggers, Morris dancers, naturists, trainspotters, yogis, zeitgeist political activists and more, experiencing first-hand their social rituals and customs in the hope that, somewhere along the way, she might just uncover the most authentic version of herself.
A Year in the Life charts Lucy's adventure as she sang naked karaoke with naturists, jumped from one very high place to another with parkour daredevils, partied in tight latex with self-proclaimed vampires and fought the undead in an epic LARP battle. It tells of the importance of community in an increasingly isolating society; of the unquenchable human thirst for a sense of belonging; of how misguided our own prejudices can be; and of how when we open the door to others, we might just learn something about ourselves.
Realising that the answer was right in front of her - in a country so full of clandestine communities and colourful, eccentric characters - Lucy made the daring decision to hit the pause button on her career and hang up her suit in favour of a year exploring twenty-six wildly different subcultures.
Over the next twelve months, she lived with battle re-enactors, circus performers, hill baggers, Morris dancers, naturists, trainspotters, yogis, zeitgeist political activists and more, experiencing first-hand their social rituals and customs in the hope that, somewhere along the way, she might just uncover the most authentic version of herself.
A Year in the Life charts Lucy's adventure as she sang naked karaoke with naturists, jumped from one very high place to another with parkour daredevils, partied in tight latex with self-proclaimed vampires and fought the undead in an epic LARP battle. It tells of the importance of community in an increasingly isolating society; of the unquenchable human thirst for a sense of belonging; of how misguided our own prejudices can be; and of how when we open the door to others, we might just learn something about ourselves.
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Writing with wit, warmth and sincerity, Lucy Leonelli shares an account of the year she spent immersing herself in 26 different UK subcultures, one for each letter of the alphabet. Occasionally out of her comfort zone yet always seeking commonality, she experienced life with people including aristocrats, LARPers, trainspotters and wiccans and here reveals their shared themes and aspirations.
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