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'The repackaged 19th-century agony aunt market is one obvious publishing success story: both a comic look at outdated mores from times that are happily gone by, and a reminder of how little has really changed. Tanith Carey's Never Kiss a Girl in a Canoe offers much that is still relevant to today's girl-about-town.' --Independent on Sunday
'Good for a hoot on a girls' night out'
--Sunday Telegraph
'Good for a hoot on a girls' night out'
--Sunday Telegraph
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A collection of the funniest – and most bizarre – agony aunts' advice from the 1850s to the 1960s
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the first review I've ever written, but I had to write one to let everyone know how ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT this book is! Not only is it really interesting from a social history perpective, it's also completely hilarious and I found myself laughing out loud the whole way through.
My favourite bits of advice have got to be the letter advising a young girl how strangers are pretty much always likely to be evil highwaymen or murderers in disguise, willing to steal her virtue at the first opportunity. Then there's the letter to a woman worried about varicose veins, a bunion and bad breath who's told that her hips are out of alignment and that's what's cassing all three problems. Or the one advising a man who can't swim to throw an egg into the water and propel himself down towards it! It's fascinating reading what people believed was right or wrong in the past, what they thought made someone beautiful or made a boy into a man, or how they believed you could resolve medical problems, and some of the lotions and potions the agony aunts advise would never get past a magazine's health and safety checks nowadays!
This is the funniest and most interesting book I've read in ages, and I've already gone and bought two more copies to give to friends. My whole family sat around the table after lunch on Sunday reading snippets of advice and killing ourselves laughing, and I'm only disappointed that I didn't save it for Christmas Day as it would have been the perfect way to wile away a lazy Christmas afternoon!
My favourite bits of advice have got to be the letter advising a young girl how strangers are pretty much always likely to be evil highwaymen or murderers in disguise, willing to steal her virtue at the first opportunity. Then there's the letter to a woman worried about varicose veins, a bunion and bad breath who's told that her hips are out of alignment and that's what's cassing all three problems. Or the one advising a man who can't swim to throw an egg into the water and propel himself down towards it! It's fascinating reading what people believed was right or wrong in the past, what they thought made someone beautiful or made a boy into a man, or how they believed you could resolve medical problems, and some of the lotions and potions the agony aunts advise would never get past a magazine's health and safety checks nowadays!
This is the funniest and most interesting book I've read in ages, and I've already gone and bought two more copies to give to friends. My whole family sat around the table after lunch on Sunday reading snippets of advice and killing ourselves laughing, and I'm only disappointed that I didn't save it for Christmas Day as it would have been the perfect way to wile away a lazy Christmas afternoon!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What a brilliant book! Favourite lines include:
'Invest in a good panty girdle'
'Nothing is more efficacious in whitening the teeth than a little soot'
'Reading in bed is a dangerous and odious habit'
'To treat a double chin, wear a chin strap during sleep, which not only prevents the mouth falling open but also keeps the flesh up'
Hours of amusement and an endlessly fascinating look at how times have changed, thankfully!
'Invest in a good panty girdle'
'Nothing is more efficacious in whitening the teeth than a little soot'
'Reading in bed is a dangerous and odious habit'
'To treat a double chin, wear a chin strap during sleep, which not only prevents the mouth falling open but also keeps the flesh up'
Hours of amusement and an endlessly fascinating look at how times have changed, thankfully!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An ideal book to give as a present. Had us all laughing out loud - love the line about 'not wicked Hester, but foolish and weak, dear'... that was in the Daily Mail. Tough love at its best and perfect for christmas cheeriness.
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Before Agony Aunts were wise, sympathetic figures, doling out candid advice on relationships, sex, and life, they were formidable matrons who saw themselves as guardians of the... Read more
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Hilarious trip back in time
I read a newspaper review of this book and was intrigued, so I bought it. At times poignant, at times laugh out loud, it perfectly purveys the mores of the eras it covers and the... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Caroline Standish
Fascinating
This is an unusual novel but one that I was fascinated by. Why? Well it is full of advice column snippets that have appeared in papers from the 1850's through to the 1960's. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2010 by Gareth Wilson - Falcata Times Blog
Hilarious
This book is amazing, got it as a gift but had to read it myself, so funny.
Published on 15 Feb 2010 by Katherine MacKenzie
Perfect girly gift
I bought this book on a recommendation. I always like to give the gift of a book to someone who invites me to dinner and this was PERFECT. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2010 by Grand Prix
my advice...
A collection of ironic and fun answers from the world of agony aunts. Some of their advise is downright weird, hilarious or just fun. A great gift for Christmas... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2009 by Barbara Day
My Advice...
"Dear Aunty,
Here's my problem. Some of your words of wisdom had me in agony - with laughing too much !
My advice - buy this book !"
SONNYSCRIBBLE
Here's my problem. Some of your words of wisdom had me in agony - with laughing too much !
My advice - buy this book !"
SONNYSCRIBBLE
Published on 27 Oct 2009 by B. Day
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