• Rules of Civility

    Rules of Civility

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    The stunning debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow. For fans of Fitzgerald and Capote, a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938.

    In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew:

    - The location of every old church in Manhattan
    - How to sneak into the cinema
    - How to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year
    - and that if you can still lose yourself in the first chapter of a Dickens novel then everything is probably going to be fine.

    By the end of the year she'd learned:

    - How to launch a paper airplane high over Park Avenue
    - How to live like a redhead
    - How to insist upon the very best
    - That the word 'yes' can be a poison
    - and the Rules of Civility.

    That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weathervane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.