Modern life can be hideously complicated—hooked up to the internet, emailing compromising videos while texting obscene messages, we still worry about how to cope with lobster thermidor, flatulent aunts, floppy husbands, and vulgar neighbors. From table manners to childcare, travel arrangements to sexual health, Mrs. Mills has been handling the social and emotional dilemmas of the readers of the Sunday Times for the past 10 years. She understands the heartbreaking problems of married life ("My husband is having an affair with my brother") and the difficulties of angry disputes with neighbors over their noisy lovemaking and quick-growing conifers. So, whether you are deeply concerned about the importance of a vigorous sex life to a successful marriage and how to cope with a cross-dressing boyfriend, or you just want to snigger, this is the book for you.
Mrs. Mills has been dispensing her mixture of dazzling wisdom and acerbic wit through her Sunday Times column for longer than it is polite to mention. There is no subject too sensitive and no problem too complex for her to solve.