THE BESTSELLING NOVEL WHICH CREATED A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON
‘A perfect bedside companion for the post-Bridget Jones generation’ DAILY TELEGRAPH (CANADA)
‘Hillis’s book gave rise to “Live Alone” accessories, including cocktail shakers, china dogs and negligees’ WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘She was boldly leading a vanguard of young women into a self-reliant, judgment-free future’ NATIONAL
This 1936 bestseller sold over 100,000 copies in the first two months of its release. Marjorie Hillis, a 1930s Vogue editor, provides a stylish, no-nonsense guide to living and loving single life. Written with wisdom, humour and panache, this is advice that will never go out of fashion. She takes women through the fundamentals of living alone by showing them how to create a welcoming environment and cultivate home-friendly hobbies, ‘for no woman can accept an invitation every night without coming to grief’.
‘Chances are that at sometime in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence. You may do it from choice. Lots of people do … Whether you view your one-woman menage as Doom or Adventure (and whether you are twenty-six or sixty-six), you need a plan’
Who can resist a book with chapters such as ‘A Lady and Her Liquor’, ‘Pleasures of a Single Bed’ and ‘Solitary Refinement’? Live Alone and Like It is sure to appeal to ‘live-aloners’ and those considering taking the plunge.
With beautiful and stylish line drawings by a Vogue illustrator.
‘A perfect bedside companion for the post-Bridget Jones generation’ DAILY TELEGRAPH (CANADA)
‘Hillis’s book gave rise to “Live Alone” accessories, including cocktail shakers, china dogs and negligees’ WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘She was boldly leading a vanguard of young women into a self-reliant, judgment-free future’ NATIONAL
This 1936 bestseller sold over 100,000 copies in the first two months of its release. Marjorie Hillis, a 1930s Vogue editor, provides a stylish, no-nonsense guide to living and loving single life. Written with wisdom, humour and panache, this is advice that will never go out of fashion. She takes women through the fundamentals of living alone by showing them how to create a welcoming environment and cultivate home-friendly hobbies, ‘for no woman can accept an invitation every night without coming to grief’.
‘Chances are that at sometime in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence. You may do it from choice. Lots of people do … Whether you view your one-woman menage as Doom or Adventure (and whether you are twenty-six or sixty-six), you need a plan’
Who can resist a book with chapters such as ‘A Lady and Her Liquor’, ‘Pleasures of a Single Bed’ and ‘Solitary Refinement’? Live Alone and Like It is sure to appeal to ‘live-aloners’ and those considering taking the plunge.
With beautiful and stylish line drawings by a Vogue illustrator.
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Reviews
Candace Bushnell, your time's up. Drain your cosmo and step aside. You've been usurped by yet another single-woman arbiter: Marjorie Hillis, the author of Live Alone and Like It
Richly deserves to be this year's Christmas best-seller . . . a perfect bedside companion for the post-Bridget Jones generation, who see no reason to put their lives on hold until Mr Right appears
Hillis wrote Live Alone and Like It in the spirit of the anticipation of a bright future for fellow bachelorettes . . . she was boldly leading a vanguard of young women into a self-reliant, judgment-free future
Hillis's book gave rise to 'Live Alone' accessories, including cocktail shakers, china dogs and negligees
Candace Bushnell, your time's up. Drain your cosmo and step aside. You've been usurped by yet another single-woman arbiter: Marjorie Hillis, the author of Live Alone and Like It
Richly deserves to be this year's Christmas best-seller . . . a perfect bedside companion for the post-Bridget Jones generation, who see no reason to put their lives on hold until Mr Right appears
