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Book SynopsisEver needed tips on how to sleep next to a snoring spouse? How to convalesce in style? Or the etiquette of staying in a haunted house? This humorous book was originally published in the 1930s as an amusing guide for married couples. Poking fun at wives and husbands in an even-handed manner, it is both witty and quaint, giving a glimpse of middle-class life of a bygone era, but also offering up some universal advice which still rings true today. For example, ‘Choose bedside books for their soporific qualities’, or, ‘one whisky-and-soda on retiring... makes the average man forget the dullest dinner and sends him to bed in a glow of good will.’ With sections on hot-water bottles, robes de nuit, breakfast in bed, the best kind of pillow, sneaking home late and night-time readers, this is the perfect, self-improving gift for your favourite bedfellow.
Table of ContentsBediquette 1 In Bed with a Teacher of Manners 3 How to Go to Bed 7 Going to Bed Under Difficulties 17 The Seven Great Problems of Marriage 23 The Seven Pillars of Desertion and Divorce 38 How to Get Up 39 In Bed with a Nice Person 44 How to Invite Somebody to Bed 55 Bed Manners in a Haunted House 58 Suzygophobia 64 The Freedom of the Seas 66 How to Be a Charming Convalescent at Home 71 A Woman’s Best Friend is Her Hot-Water Bottle 88 Bed Manners in a Country House 91 So You Don’t Sleep Well! 106 Advice to Those About to Marry 115
