While you're lost in the whirl of silk stockings, fur and hip flasks, all you care about is what Katey Kontent does next.' - Viv Groskop, Observer It's all too rare to find a fun, glamorous, semi-literary tale to get lost in. 'This is a flesh-and-blood tale you believe in, with fabulous period detail. A smart, witty, charming dry-martini of a novel.' - David Nicholls, author of One Day 'The summer's must-read: gripping and beautiful.' - Sunday Times 'Achingly stylish.witty, slick production, replete with dark intrigue, period details, and a suitably Katharine Hepburn-like heroine.' - Guardian Towles conjures up vintage New York so marvellously that it made me feel nostalgic for a place I've never been to.' - The Times Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 9781444708875 Number of pages: 368 Weight: 239 g Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 23 mm MEDIA REVIEWS

With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.

This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society-where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighbouring table. This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. We launched ourselves into the evening like satellites and orbited the city two miles above the earth, powered by failing, fallen currencies and finely filtered spirits. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.įrom the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) novel of a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table.

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