Desperate Husbands (19 page)

The author would like to thank Debra Oswald; Dan and Joe Glover; Tony Scullion and Peter Harrison from the
Sydney Morning Herald
; Nellie Flannery and Annabelle Sheehan from RGM; Sascha Rundle, Rory Macdonald and Laura Bailey from the ABC; and, from HarperCollins, Linda Funnell, Shona Martyn and Mary Rennie.

Richard Glover is the author of nine books, including the bestsellers
In Bed with Jocasta
and
The Dag’s Dictionary.
He writes a weekly column for the
Sydney Morning Herald
and presents the Drive show on ABC Radio in Sydney.

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In Bed with Jocasta

The Dag’s Dictionary

For children

The Dirt Experiment

‘I first met Jocasta when I was twenty-one. I was pimply and unattractive and she did things in bed that no other woman was willing to do. For instance: staying
in
the bed when I hopped into it.’

For better for worse, in sickness and in health, in car park and shopping mall, this may be the world’s weirdest love-story.

‘I have spent many years trying to convince the newspaper-reading public of Jocasta’s unfair ways and fierce nature. Alas, she grows more popular with her every outrage. Women, I’m told, have taken to quoting her behaviour, with some suggesting she is some sort of
go-girl
role model. Hopefully, with the length afforded by a book, I can finally white-ant this emerging fan base, and fully catalogue her crimes.’

‘This ain’t Proust.’

—Matt Condon,
Sun-Herald

‘Glover is better than Proust. OK, maybe not better, but how often do you find yourself in a cold bath at midnight still chuckling over Proust?’

—Debra Adelaide,
Sydney Morning Herald