This is a funny book that also supplies genuine information. It is addressed to the undomesticated half of any partnership: the person who, when the gas man calls, shouts to the other person, 'It's for you!'; the person who thinks that Cif is still called Jif, and that limescale is some method of measuring the acidity of citrus fruits. For shorthand, the author calls these people 'men'. The book, which has been given the 'Good Housekeeping' seal of approval, tells them how and why they should do housework. The chapter on how to 'do' Christmas is shortly to be excerpted in The Daily Mail, and 'How To Get Things Really Flat' is to be Book of the Week on Radio Four in the week beginning December 29th.