What will happen when you leave home for the first time - do you know the basics on how to survive?

Girl’s Guide to Basic Survival is every girl’s essential reference guide of all those things your mother never taught you – or that you chose not to listen to.

It’s a practical hands-on, down-to-earth guide focusing on those every day household problems and challenges that you are likely to encounter in real life, and it is full of tips and advice to help you keep your house (and you) from falling down around you.

Step-by step instructions are enhanced, wherever necessary, by illustrations, so you can see exactly how to do it.

Girl’s Guide to Basic Survival is your guide to daily living, offering a thorough grounding in the practical skills that everyone should know in order to survive.

You will be armed with the confidence and enthusiasm to get stuck in and have a go as you cook, clean, and fix your way towards surviving.

Sarah Johannsen was that ‘unusal’ kid who read old household hints and tips books, played with buttons and got excited about being allowed to use the iron.

Sarah is a self-educated domestic historian, specializing in all matters of household management and sometimes extends her scope to fashion, beauty and other feminine concerns of the past. And she can barely contain her enthusiasm for sewing; from techniques to fitting to the thrilling satisfaction of ‘I made it’!

As a lover of old household books, its little wonder she came to pen one in which she shares the hard-won wisdoms of a semichaotic and somewhat nomadic life.