Better bed manners

Balliol, Anne

£12.99

A charming, humorous guide on nighttime manners for married couples, first published in the 1930s.

Available on backorder

Publish Date: 21/09/2023
ISBN: 9781851246199 Category: Tags: , ,

Description

Ever 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.

Additional information

Weight 220 g
Dimensions 170 × 110 × 17 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

128

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

392.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K