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A book about the two of you

How you met, the argument you always have, the cat who runs the house. We turn it into an illustrated hardback that’s funny, a bit soppy and entirely yours.

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£49 with UK delivery. A second copy, so you each have one, is £39.

A woman reads the book aloud in bed while her partner hides under the duvet laughingIllustrative photo

Read it aloud. Watch them hide under the duvet.

What a page reads like

Every page is written from something you told us. This one came from two notes.

Example note“She reverses into the same space four times and blames the car.”
Example note“Pickle the cat disapproves of everything we do.”
Ink and wash page: she reverses the red car into the space again while he holds the shopping, laughing

Jess reversed into the space for the fourth time, and blamed the car.

Pickle watched from the window. Pickle disapproved.

As yourselves, or as a pair of foxes

You choose the title, the look and how you’re drawn. Most couples are drawn as themselves. If one of you would rather not be, choose an animal: foxes, otters and bears are popular. Your pets always stay exactly as they are.

  • Cover of Ten Things I Love About JessAs themselves, in ink and wash
  • Cover of Two Foxes and a Flat in LeedsAs foxes, in linocut

The morning it’s opened

Illustrative photos of how it might go.

  1. A breakfast tray in bed with a parcel tied with red string and a tag saying Read me first1Breakfast, and a parcel
  2. Cover of Ten Things I Love About Jess2Your story, drawn as you
  3. A woman reads the book aloud in bed while her partner hides under the duvet laughing3Read aloud. Mortifying. Perfect.
  4. A woman hugging the book to her chest, laughing, while her partner watches4“You put the parking in?!”
Illustrative photo: a couple in their sixties laugh over their book, Forty Years of Us, on their anniversary
Illustrative photo

Not just for Valentine’s

Forty years married, or four months in. The story is yours, so the occasion is too.

  • Valentine’s Day
  • Anniversaries
  • Engagements
  • Weddings
  • Moving in together
  • Just because

We’ll ask you things like

  1. Where did you meet, and who spoke first?
  2. What’s the in-joke nobody else gets?
  3. What do they do that drives you up the wall, in a good way?
  4. Who else is in your life? Pets, best friends, the neighbour who always waves.
  5. Where are you heading next?

Valentine’s, sorted

Approve your pages by 29 January and we’ll hold it and deliver it in plain packaging in the week of 8 February, so it doesn’t sit in the hall for months. Last orders for Valentine’s: 5 February, sent as soon as it’s printed.

Missed it? Order by 13 February and we’ll send the digital book on Valentine’s morning instead, £19. If you upgrade to the hardback later, the £19 comes off.

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