In soap opera, in verse, in quiz, period pastiche and children_s fiction, Miles Kington_s Motorway Madness is a book entirely devoted to the motorway. Nobody has ever written a funny, literate and concentrated book about motorways. This is it.The railway train shaped the nineteenth century, and gave birth to a huge amount of writing and speculation. The motor car and the motorway have shaped the twentieth century, but there is nothing like the same heritage of motorway literature. In fact, there isn_t any at all. This is odd because the motorway is part of our lives. The M25_motorway service areas_the Watford gap_Sorry for any delay_Lane Coned Off.

All these familiar phrases are now part of our common consciousness.Until now no book has ever tried to satisfy the itch for motorway musings. In irrepressibly witty sketches and poems, from a skit on the Famous Five to the Ballad of the Middle-Laner, Miles Kington_s Motorway Madness: A Driver_s Handbook will make people say half out loud: _This is the book I_ve always wanted, without quite realising it or articulating the desire__.