"If you want shopping at Bendel's, gin martinis at a debutante's mansion and jazz bands playing until 3am, Rules of Civility has it all and more...While you're lost in the whirl of silk stockings, furs and hip flasks, all you care bout is what Katey Content does next." Observer

"A cross between Dorothy Parker and Holly Golightly, Katey Content is a priceless narrator...the brains of a bluestocking with the legs of a flapper and the more of Carrie Bradshaw." Daily Telegraph

From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow

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. 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.

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.