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A riotously funny book about how to be a good husband (not like he would know) by Tim Dowling, star columnist for The Guardian. Think Nick Hornby meets Dave Barry - with a hint of Modern Family.This is not a self-help book. Tim Dowling doesn't have any solid advice for you on how to be a man - he tried hard to become one for a while, but in the end he just got older. This is simply the story of how, in the course of ten bewilderingly short years, Dowling went from a bachelor's life in New York City to becoming an ex-pat in London, solidly married and the father of three young boys. It's also an examination of what it means to be a husband in the twenty-first century - and what is and isn't required to hold that office these days.Tim Dowling has been exploiting his family in his writing for years, ever since it became clear that readers of his weekly column at The Guardian couldn't get enough stories about his acerbically witty spouse and their rambunctious offspring.