A UK PPL takes usually about a year, mostly due to cancelled lessons due to bad wx or broken aircraft.
Mine took a year and about 60 hours.
But when you get your PPL, you can fly differently, because you don't have an instructor telling you that you can't fly in 5000m visibility. You have a decent GPS and you damn well can fly in 5000m vis (a nice English summer). It's a different world, once you have that piece of paper.