Honeymoons: Journeys from the Altar by Roger Hudson, Rose Baring epub fb2 djvu

The honeymoon - no other holiday inspires so much anticipation, nor offers such potential for catastrophic disappointment or blissful fulfillment. Using extracts from great and obscure works of literature, together with stories of public marriages and the private lives they joined, Honeymoons: Journeys from the Altar takes the reader on a rollercoaster of an emotional journey into the heart of human longing, to examine what it is we are seeking, and what we expect when we embark on marriage. The road is littered with pleasures, great and small, not to mention surprises, disappointments, cads, and one or two corpses!