Happily Ever After A Light-hearted Guide to Wedded Bliss

Combining stories, quotes, and tips from couples of all ages, this charmingly illustrated compendium gives sage advice for married couples. Does he habitually leave his socks on the bathroom floor? Does she insist on interrupting your favorite sports broadcast to make you explain the rules (when she's clearly not interested in them anyway)? Never fear. For, as Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall shows in Happily Ever After, a good marriage is all in the details. This wonderful book takes a light-hearted look at marriage from all anglesin the kitchen, in the garden, on vacation, with friends. Jane shares a delightful collection of stories, quotes, and extracts on the joys (and occasional pains) of married life from voices as diverse as Socrates and Jane Austen, Tolstoy and Albert Einstein. Happily Ever Afteris a tribute to marriage in all its comic frustrations and glorious delights. Whether you are about to be married or celebrating your paper, brass, or diamond wedding anniversary, you will discover a treasury of advice, humor, and experience on every page.

Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall is the bestselling author of The Good Granny Guide, The Good Granny Cookbook, and The Pocket Book of Good Grannies and has written many books on plants and gardening. A grandmother of five and the mother of TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, she lives with her husband in Gloucestershire.