Synopses & Reviews
Of all our blood relations, an aunt offers the most potential for uncomplicated friendship. The Complete Book of Aunts is an entertaining and touching exploration of aunts in all their guises and varieties, culled from real-life, literary and historical sources. Bewitching illustrations and anecdotes illuminate various aunt types: Bargain Aunts, Mothering Aunts, Damned Bad Aunts, and X-Rated Aunts. With stories and poems about famous or historical aunts, Christiansen and Brophy attempt to uncover what aunt-ness is.
Synopsis
Of all ones relatives, an aunt offers the most potential for uncomplicated friendship. Rupert Christiansen presents a wise and witty exploration of aunts in all their glorious variety--perfect as a holiday gift and as a cherished, funny, and heartwarming keepsake to be read again and again.Twelve