Spouse

How marriages work and why they fail…

Marriage is an adventure, says Shobhaa Dé, celebrity writer, devoted wife and mother of six. It's about trust, companionship, affection and sharing. It's also about learning to cope with your partner's moods and eccentricities. Not to mention the delicate balancing act between parents, children, friends and a career, and the sometimes overpowering need to get away from it all.

In this delightful book on society's most debated institution, Shobhaa Dé writes about how and why marriages work—or don't. With her usual disregard for rules, she reinvents tradition and challenges old stereotypes, addressing all the issues that are central to most Indian marriages: the saas-bahu conundrum (how to escape the role-trap and enjoy each other), the need for honesty (aren't some secrets better left secret?), the importance of romance (no, expressions of love are not unmanly!), and not any less important, how to recognize the warning signs in a hopeless relationship and run before it's too late.

Fun, savvy and, above all, pragmatic, this is the ultimate relationship book for all those who want to make the adventure of marriage last a lifetime.

‘‘ ‘A hard-edged, hard-nosed insight on marriage . . .an important book . . . Dé’s most accomplished work’ —India Today‘Coloured with anecdotes, [Spouse] offers relevant but shrewd advice’ —India Abroad‘The best kind of self-help primer: straightforward, commonsensical and written in the chatpata style for which the author is best known’ —Hindustan Times‘A sane, sensible, practical look at marriage . . . makes for a one-sitting reading’ —Deccan Herald