This in-depth book about spelling, and the thorny problems it presents, takes the reader on a magical mystery tour and shows how to avoid the pitfalls in an easy, logical way. Catherine Taylor has had many years of experience in teaching adults and post-school learners in Adult Basic Education, Further Education and various other education settings, and she sets out to guide you through the maze. She does this with the many and varied exercises she has prepared and designed to aid those adults for whom spelling represents a nightmarish world of uncertainty and alienation. This handbook of hope and discovery highlights the different spelling rules and patterns you can learn as a means of improving technique. It follows the author s previous publication A Useful Dyslexia Handbook for Adults.