How to Be a Husband, Tim Dowling
How to Be a Husband, Tim Dowling
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How to Be a Husband

Author: Tim Dowling

Narrator: Tim Dowling

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/05/2015


Synopsis

The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer. Anything resembling advice should be taken at reader's own risk. You'll never get divorced if you never get married. Not even your granny minds if you live in sin anymore. And if you're single you can choose curtains without somebody else butting in. So why bother with marriage? It can't just be an easy way round having to buy your own deodorant. Guardian columnist Tim Dowling is a husband of some twenty years. His marriage is resounding proof that even the most impossible partnership can work out for the best. Some of the time. So while this book is called 'How To be a Husband', it's not really a how-to guide at all. Nor is it a compendium of petty remarks and brinkmanship - although it contains plenty of both. You may pick up a few DIY hints. You might learn that while marriage is founded on love, it endures through bloody hard work. Most likely it will make you whimper with the laughter of painful recognition. How To be a Husband is a cautionary tale about throwing caution to the wind. It's the strange romance of two people consenting to share a roll-on. It's a new manifesto for marriage and an answer to why, even when we suck at it, we stick at it

Reviews

Enmeshed as I am in the stresses of moving, I can only do lightweight reading at the moment, and this book was perfect. A very funny jaunt through the pains, joys and dilemmas of being a good-enough husband to what sounds like a fairly scary-sounding wife. It earned the author the accolade of having......more

Goodreads review by David

This is one of the funniest books I have ever read! Tim Dowling is a master of self-deprecating humor, and every page is a big belly laugh. Tim Dowling proclaims that this is not a self-help book. And it surely is not. It is a catalog of all the things that a husband should not do. The book should r......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

This is supposed to be a "riotously funny" book of essays from a writer compared to Dave Barry. Um. No. I am not sure if he is trying to be self-deprecating or if he really is the jackass he makes himself out to be. His wife doesn't seem to fare much better. Tim is a young New Yorker when he meets h......more

Goodreads review by Casey

I am not, nor will I ever be, a husband for obvious reasons. However, I adore Tim Dowling's column in The Guardian, so I was excited to receive an advance copy of this book. This book plays as well as his short form writing because Dowling has a gift for using amusing anecdotes to work toward a deep......more