Claire Rayner's Marriage Guide: How to make yours work (First edition)

Marriage is a wonderful experience, but for many people it is also fraught with unexpected worries and anxieties. Most of these are caused by simple inexperience and can be resolved by good planning and thinking carefully about the future. This book has been specially written for newly-weds and anyone about to get married, to help them overcome the problems they face and make the most of the early years of their marriage, laying the foundations of a successful and sustaining partnership. As Claire Rayner says in her introduction: "I have decided to write the sort of book I would have found useful when I was about to embark on a walk down the aisle... a book that would give me all the practical information I knew I lacked about sharing, about sex, about home-making... budgeting...planning for children... everything from organising the wedding to dodging a divorce."

The result is a practical guide full of positive advice and information on everything from planning a guest list to planning a family...from where to get married to where to live... from the basics of anatomy to techniques to add spice to your love-life. Drawing on her experience of answering readers' letters and dealing with their problems, Claire Rayner covers a wide range of topics, offering expert advice wherever possible and suggesting the right people to turn to for help when you need it. Including over fifty actual letters and answers which relate to points raised in the main sections, this book is illustrated with colour and black and white photographs, drawings and diagrams.