“This is not a shopping guide..
it’s a book about shopping, a sort of Joy of Sex for shops..
It’s not going to direct you Harvey Nichols, becouse it assumes that you know where it is, and what it’s for..
I can’t quite remember if that almost-not-daring-to-believe, kick-in-the-stomach feeling of pure joy-‘You mean we give you a few coins and the lovely thing becomes mine?’-first happened when my paternal grandmother took me to a patisserie..
The idea that you could eat delicious things all the time, if you liked, simply by taking a few steps down the streets and shopping, was just amazing to me..”