Forget the Britain that is green and pleasant, urban and dangerous, historic and scenic. Welcome to the rest of it.

This is suburbia: the vast swathes of inbetweeny land, the multiplexed, mind-your-manners Great British Experience.

And it may well be where you live.

It's certainly where Miranda Sawyer comes from, as you will discover if you read her curtain-twitching, stiletto-swinging, wife-swapping new book
Park and Ride.

So park up, and let Miranda take you for a ride...