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How To Stay Married

By: Jilly Cooper OBE
Narrated by: Samantha Bond
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'There is no one else like Cooper' Guardian


When Jilly Cooper, then a young Sunday Times journalist, was asked to write a book on marriage, she had been married to Leo Cooper for a mere seven years. In this 2011 reissue of that book, they were celebrating their Golden Wedding, and although the institution of marriage has changed a great deal since this book was first written, much of Jilly's advice - frank, fearless, often hilarious, but always wise - still holds good.

From the wedding and the honeymoon to life afterwards, including how to deal with the in-laws and how to tell if your other half is having an affair, she dispenses anecdotes, jokes, common sense and endless optimism and fun.

Whether you are contemplating marriage, living together, or have been married as long as Jilly and Leo were, you will plenty of good advice and humour in How to Stay Married.

Everybody loves Jilly Cooper:
'Joyful and mischievous' Jojo Moyes
'A delight from start to finish' Daily Mail
'Fun, sexy and unputdownable' Marian Keyes
'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding


© Jilly Cooper 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2011

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Would you try another book written by Jilly Cooper or narrated by Samantha Bond?

Have found other Jilly Cooper books very enjoyable. Samantha Bond has a pleasant enough presentation but the narration is too fast. The book has numerous topics and these blurr together as the narration rushes from one to another sometimes leaving you unsure as to whether you are still on the same topic or the following one!

What could Jilly Cooper have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Stuck to the kind of novels she is good at writing

How could the performance have been better?

See above poor narration as too fast

If this book were a film would you go see it?

Definitely nor!

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