Tim Dowling's How to be a Husband isn't, as the title may seem to suggest, a self help book, instead it's a collection of very funny essays.
Dowling is an American married to an Englishwoman. He lives in London with her and their sons and writes a regular column about family life for The Guardian newspaper. This book appears to be an edited compendium of those columns.
The book begins with Tim meeting his wife for the first time and goes on to describe their courtship and subsequent life as a married couple and parents of three boys.
It's well written and easy to read. The humour in it is very self depreciating but it is a seriously funny book - it's not often that I laugh out loud whilst reading but this made me do so more than once. However there's an emotional side to the writing as well and some astute observations are made.
All in all it's a hilariously funny read that I greatly enjoyed.
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