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The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners: How to navigate the dilemmas of social life

by Alain de Botton Editor

A helpful and in-depth guide to navigating socially difficult situations. Unsure how to disengage from a conversation that is boring you to tears while not causing offence? Spilled wine on someone's couch? or maybe you just cant remember someone's name mid conversation with them. This book has the answers to whatever social mis-step worries you. Even if social ettiquete is your strong suite, this book offers meditations on a society centered around manners and the cultural return to being kind with one another.