Dimensions
172 x 231 x 40mm
Neither a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, this book is a lucid, well-written and entertaining guide to all the domestic arts for beginners and experts - from packing a suitcase to making a good fire, from ironing and folding to keeping surfaces free of bacteria and everything we do in our homes at the start of the 21st century.
Reliable and thorough, the book not only focuses on the practicalities of housekeeping, but also argues for the importance of private life and the comforts offered by good housekeeping.
Cheryl Mendelson addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping with a keen sense of their history and values involved. The result is a warm, good-humoured, engagingly written book with a message and a point of view, one that is overflowing with useful reflections and information. The clarity, breadth and depth of the information collection here are unparalleled.
You can read 'Home Comforts' for its numerous observations on the art of housekeeping or use its ample index to help find the answers to every imaginable domestic question. Every household should have a copy.
