To enjoy this collection, readers do not need to be experts on forensics, farming or flooding (though it helps if you like cake). Wearing their scholarship lightly, the authors lead us easily through topics as diverse as prison diets for nursing mothers, the psychology of domestic violence perpetrators and why Ambridge men don t make their own sandwiches.
The authors of Custard, Culverts and Cake approach their subject in the spirit of scholarship, and with a sense of fun that some would say borders on the unseemly. Clearly, academic research into Ambridge life is a rich vein. --The Ambridge Observer
“To enjoy this collection, readers do not need to be experts on forensics, farming or flooding (though it helps if you like cake). Wearing their scholarship lightly, the authors lead us easily through topics as diverse as prison diets for nursing mothers, the psychology of domestic violence perpetrators and why Ambridge men don’t make their own sandwiches.