The Woman's Book: Everything But the Kitchen Sink

Everything but the Kitchen Sink is a definitive new handbook of women's customs, habits and pursuits. A witty distillation of current wisdom relating to twenty-first-century life, its key is the visually attractive manner in which the information is presented. Jam-packed with facts, figures, diagrams, lists, tables, flow charts, pie charts, Venn diagrams, multiple-choice questionnaires, charts, columns of pros vs. cons, point systems, quotes, barometers of 'going up/going down' and so on, the approach is very much a systematic one. Yet complementing this is the book's often left-field perspective. The words 'maybe', 'perhaps' or 'probably' do not feature; rather, this is about taking a view on the many and varied cultural reference points that constitute our everyday existence. By summarising all the most useful tips and information from books like How to Be a Domestic Goddess, The Shops, He's Just Not That Into You, Smart Women Get Rich and the Guinness Book of Records and magazines like Grazia, Good Housekeeping and the Economist, Everything but the Kitchen Sink provides a fascinating insight into the psychology of women's everyday life.