Giveaway #630 : Win 3 x The Mills & Boon Modern Girl's Guide To Growing Old Disgracefully - closed - winners Katie Skeoch, Tracy K Nixon and Keri Jones

The Mills & Boon Modern Girl’s Guide to Growing Old Disgracefully, published on 25th May 2017, is the sixth book in the series, with previous titles including Turning Into Your Mother, Working 9 to 5, Happy Hour, Helping Yourself and Happy Endings.

Drawing on Mills & Boon’s heritage and experience of over 100 years’ publishing for women, the Mills & Boon Modern Girl’s Guides bring together nostalgic black and white archive photographs of twentieth century women and witty twenty first century commentary from a dynamic writing duo under the pen-name Ada Adverse.

“Ada Adverse” is a larger than life character who was (supposedly) brought up in a deeply puritanical household where looking at a cake was considered a decadence punishable by a night in the coal cellar. At the age of fifteen, she ran away from home and is now the world’s leading authority on Having Fun, which is definitely an actual job, and she has ‘Fungineer’ printed on her business cards to prove it. Ada’s hobbies include topiary, mazes, homing pigeons, flea circuses, embalming things, tattoos, pylons, and the films of Billy Wilder. Ada’s dislikes include predatory macaws and getting out of the wrong side of bed. The tone is set !

Packed with indispensable tips for embracing the onset of ageing, from how to know if you are attending an actual ‘dinner party’ to the indignity of not getting ID-ed in Asda, and covering crucial topics including causing havoc in the National Trust gift shop and losing your temper with the lady from ‘customer services’, the book is a hilarious catalogue of those ladies who are letting go of their boring, well-behaved younger self and embracing their adventurous, naughty side.

 

Readers may include some of the following:

· Those who have treated afternoon tea as an ‘all you can eat opportunity’

· Those who have realised they only ever hoover these days when they are expecting guests

· Those who flatly refuse to ‘act their age’

The fun, feisty and feminist annotations and hilarious vintage photographs make this the perfect present for a mother, daughter or best friend. It's great as a coffee table book, for dipping into for a moment of light relief when you have a few minutes to spare.

“Hilarious indispensable guides to life” – Woman and Home

“These tongue-in-cheek A-Z books provide laughs galore with advice on how to survive the modern world” – Bella Magazine

“This fun and feminist series of humour books celebrates the sisterhood with a wry smile” – Red

RRP : £6.99

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Mills & Boon (18 May 2017)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0008244812
• ISBN-13: 978-0008244811
• Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 1.3 x 18.4 cm

I have three copies of the book to give away to lucky Madhouse Family Reviews readers. Fill in your entries via the rafflecopter widget below.

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UK only. Closing date : 20/6/17

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