Never A Dull Moment by Sarah Baker, Murdoch Books, $39.99.
Do you remember the time when TVs, iPads, Facebook, Gameboys and all that jazz weren’t the only way to while away an evening?
In fact, back in those days, families and friends would come together to play games and have fun.
Take a journey back with this excellent hardback tome of parlour games for young and old.
The parlour was a Victorian construct, a formal public room where the burgeoning middle-classes would gather for that new thing — leisure time.
Parlour games offered the perfect opportunity for girls to show off their wit or accomplishments and young men to do some subtle wooing, as well a place for children to be seen and heard, and parents to connect with their offspring.
There are more than 200 games and pastimes in this book, including the intriguing Animals, in which a blindfolded player seeks out other players in the room who, once caught, become their prisoner and have to imitate an animal who needs Australia’s Got Talent?
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