Prof Miller refuses to reveal the actual town but The Irish Times said it rhymed with “fairies” and reading almost any page of the book confirms that it is Skerries.
The anthropologist spent 16 months among the people of the pseudonymous town of “Cuan”, predominantly its retirees, as part of an examination of “how life could and should be lived”. The plaudit came via a new book, The Good Enough Life by University College London’s Prof Daniel Miller. However briefly, we have found ourselves perched on the vertiginous spot of “best place in the world to live”. But that’s what happened to us here in Skerries, north Co Dublin, when the news was pinged across the town’s WhatsApp group and Facebook pages. It is a curious thing to wake up on a Monday morning and learn that you live in paradise – or a “good enough” version of it anyway.
