What they didn't teach me in Sunday School
By Rob Parsons
Hodder & Stoughton. 164 pages. £5.99
ISBN 0 340 64276 9
This is an easy-to-read, slim volume of helpful anecdotes and quotations from many sources, mixed with true stories from the author's own life.
As I am not married and have no children, this was my first taste of Rob Parsons' literary talents (he has also written two best-sellers: The sixty-minute father and The sixty-minute marriage). I particularly enjoyed the opening piece on his early days at Sunday School, and would have liked the book to continue with more of the same, rather than becoming a compilation of other people's observations - many of which I had met before. But I can appreciate that for many readers, Rob is breaking new ground in what he is saying.