‘Honeymoons is a wedding gift with a hidden barb… There are beguiling romantic interludes here… and lush descriptions of the tentative path to sexual abandonment… but Roger Hudson and Rose Baring's selection of literary glimpses into the early days of connubial bliss deliberately drags the reader, naughtily, into dicey territory.'
The Observer

‘A honeymoon is one of the most significant journeys many people will take, and so it's a holiday loaded with anticipation, and the potential for disappointment. Not surprisingly, such trips provide rich material for a writer and this fine anthology includes extracts both from the trips of real people, as well as passages from some of the great and more obscure works of literature…. It makes for gripping reading with vivid descriptions of place…and moving and funny extracts from the emotional journey couples take following marriage.'
The Sunday Telegraph

'Honeymoons are a nervous time. Even for couples who've been together for years, that dramatic move forward, that formalised commitment, shifts things. The period immediately afterwards is one whose very emphasis on romance and starry-eyed joy inevitably also invites the opposite. Happily, this anthology acknowledges that if the course of true love never did run smooth, it is especially bumpy during the holiday after marriage…the fiction is well-chosen, the factual fascinates'
>Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

'‘The differences between people rather than times are what give primal zest to these extracts – some from letters and diaries, others from novels, short stories, poems and even (the delicious Private Lives) a play. What happens when two individuals who hardly know each other are suddenly left alone together? Sometimes the results are comic … sometimes, they are ominous, even appalling …and sometimes they are provocatively contradictory… nuggets of innocence, ignorance, revelation and the shock of the morning afterwards.'
James Fergusson, Country Life

‘The potential for blissful happiness or bitter disappointment is covered in stories from Yorkshire to Switzerland.'
Traveller Magazine

‘Extracts, short stories, letters and poems from many of the literary world's best-known authors, spanning several centuries and much of the world.'
Wanderlust

‘Read it and weep, or giggle … this book should be read after the ceremony; lest its collection of emotional, erotic, often acerbic reflections, examining our expectations as we embark upon marriage, knocks bridge and groom off the path of true love.'
CNN Traveller

‘Highly entertaining … few events are supposed to offer more unmixed happiness – and therefore more colourful possibilities of everything going horribly wrong. This is a rich collection.'
Katharine Whitehorn, The Oldie