Book description
So your husband/boyfriend/partner (delete as necessary) has just
tipped over 35/40/45/50 (delete as necessary) and you can see that
he's not quite as keen on Emmerdale as he once was. He's started to
dress with his jeans hoiked too high like his hero Jeremy Clarkson and
he's bought a home gym - the one recommended by George Clooney. Then
there are those Harley Davison brochures delivered in brown envelopes.
You've noticed he's started pulling in his beer gut when he's talks to
his teenage secretary. And why have his grey sideburns turned that
browny black? That's a sure sign of hair dye. And then you stumble
into the bathroom in the morning and he's got his hands in a jar of
your face cream.
LADIES BEWARE!
That dangerous age has arrived. It's the male menopause. The
mid-life crisis. The time when suddenly you find your partner has put
a whole Scalextrix track in your attic without you noticing. He's
bought an electric guitar and insists on playing 'Smoke On The Water
'to the cat at all hours. It that time when no matter what you say
they suddenly don't mind making a fools of themselves. They come home
almost every week with a new enthusiasm. Dangerous Men don't just cook
- they COOK. With truffles, that cost £210 for one the size of a
wrinkled scrotum, and have to be from the right region of France. And
they must be served with a side order of blowfish, because you saw
that in a James Bond DVD that came free with the Mail on Sunday.
David Quantick is a BAFTA award-winning comedy writer and bestselling
author of the bestselling series of
Grumpy Old Men
books.
Dangerous Book for Middle-Aged Men
is edited by the great Jon Naismith (producer of
I'm Sorry I Haven't
a Clue
and much award-winning radio and TV). Both are certainly not pushing
middle-age and they are certainly not into cooking ... apart from
truffles ... which are really, really expensive ... or sports cars ...
and neither has a comb-over ... yet.
