February 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9806378-3-0
$19.95 hardback
Advice to Young People on Leaving Home
by Grace Lax
If you or your spawn are looking for guidance about the right way to leave the family home, find ‘digs‘, make friends, influence people, express yourself artistically, eat, drink, procreate, get ahead and, finally, die and be buried... then this darling compendium will steer you through the rest of your days. It is the latest offering from world-famous knowist, Grace Lax, OBE.
Mrs Lax, 107 if she is a day, has never let being entirely fictional get in her way. ‘You don‘t need to have a pulse,' she laughs, jangling her pearls, ‘to have your finger on it.'
Praise for Advice to Young People on Leaving Home
'A great read.' Shaun Micallef
'This guide will be of no use whatsoever to anyone. It does, nonetheless, deserve its place next to Footrot Flats and those Gary Larson books in the dunnies of all the finest Australian homes, and there's no higher praise than that.' The Sunday Age
'Don‘t leave home without it.' The Age
'You‘re in for a laugh.' Sunday Herald Sun
Mrs Grace Lax
Born by a process of self-will in 1922, Mrs Lax married her husband, a common social arrangement at the time, er... later. She might be best known for her long-running advice and deportment television program, Ruination, Abomination. Her six-part documentary on when to extend the pinkie while imbibing Earl Grey was the highest rating television series of 1974, during the ‘Summer of Good Manners'.
The secret to her success is that she never talks down to people, only commands them in the way to behave. ‘They respect me for it,' she says.
Now semi-retired, Mrs. Lax enjoys a gentle day of strict routine and self-punishment, usually inflicted on others.
