The honeymoon period
You can see why PG Wodehouse loved this book, it is written in a Jeeves-ish style that is witty, bumbling, just plain funny and extremely readable. If only the first year of married life could be like this nowadays - it is like a different planet not just a different century that Denis Mackail is writing about when we realise the young couple have to move to a new, bigger house after they have had a baby: when in fact they live in a terraced house off the King's Road! Another Persephone gem, one to be put on the shelf next to my favourite Nancy Mitfords and EM Delafields. And an ideal present for newly-weds of course.