'Shocking and slightly heart-breaking though it is to me, you have all reached marriageable age and it occurs to me that unless I speak up now I should forever hold my peace. I couldn't forgive myself if any of you hitched yourselves to a pig when I could, with a single pertinent observation, have put you off.' Following on from Barbara Toner's successful A Mother's Guide to Life, this amusing and entertaining guide to husbands includes advice on honeymoons, handymen and marital fatigue, how to argue in public and keep a social life and the true meaning of Christmas. After all, marriage - and all it entails in separating from the family of one's birth to embrace a man whose family's ways may include slurping - is no mean undertaking ...