Bare Necessities : Essential Life Skills for Surviving in the Real World

by Jemma Wayne

So you've left home and you are living your new independent life but then you need to switch on the washing machine or change a tyre and no one has ever shown you how. Bare Necessities is the invaluable book for big kids of all ages. Guiding you through everything from how to write a cheque, to filling out tax returns, and from boiling an egg to contacting the gas company when the egg fails to boil - it is essential reading for all adult-novices. It is broken down into sections according to lie skills and these food, health, housekeeping, car survival, banking, starting work and property. No longer will you have to phone your friends to ask how to do things or sit through lectures on how to change a plug. You now have it all at your fingertips.

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Published January 1, 1887

About the author

Born to an American musician father, and English mother, Jemma grew up in leafy Hertfordshire and studied Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University and Broadcast Journalism at the University of Westminster. She began her career as a journalist at The Jewish Chronicle and now works freelance splitting her time between journalism, writing for stage, and prose. Her first play, Negative Space, was staged in 2009 at Hampstead's New End Theatre, receiving critical acclaim.

The idea for After Before was first spawned after attending a SURF charity event organised by her husband, in aid of survivors of the Rwandan genocide. It was there that Jemma heard first-hand some of the lingering effects of the 1994 war.