The honeymoon
- no other holiday inspires so much anticipation, or has such potential for blissful happiness, or for disappointment. Using extracts from fiction & from real-life diaries & letters, Honeymoons takes you on a rollercoaster of an emotional journey into the heart of human longing, to examine what it is we are seeking, & what we expect, when we embark on marriage. There are real journeys to Pisa & Rome, through Switzerland & India & to the dales & moors of Yorkshire. We hear about the consummations of royal weddings; & about the dire consequences of marriages of convenience & those entered into with calculation. We journey in time from the very public wedding night of a seventeenth-century couple, to the honeymoon of Sophie Kinsella`s Shopaholic in Sri Lanka. The road is littered with pleasures, great & small, not to mention surprises, disappointments, cads & one or two corpses.