The Complete Book of Aunts - Couverture souple

Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at King's College, Cambridge. After further study as a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, he has written several books including PRIMA DONNA, ROMANTIC AFFINITIES, PARIS BABYLON, THE VISITORS and ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. In 1997, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Beth Brophy is the author of the novel MY EX-BEST FRIEND (Simon & Schuster, July 2003). She has been an adjunct professor of journalism at the American University and Georgetown.

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.