An entertaining and touching exploration of aunts in all their guises andvarieties. An aunt is not someone to be rationalised or theorised. Whether niceor nasty... » 

An entertaining and touching exploration of aunts in all their guises andvarieties. An aunt is not someone to be rationalised or theorised. Whether niceor nasty bossy timid disappointed or eccentric an aunt offers her brood ofnieces and nephews another angle on the world and another insight into it. Ofall our blood relations she offers the most potential for uncomplicatedfriendship. The idea for this book came to Rupert Christiansen after the deathof one of his own aunts an admirable woman of the old school who saw it asher auntly duty to guide and cherish as well as entertain and indulge. HisCOMPLETE BOOK OF AUNTS is a hugely entertaining and touching exploration ofaunts in all their guises and varieties culled from reallife literary andhistorical sources. «