39 steps to good modern manners

WHEN my friend Kay Plunkett-Hogge and I first decided to write a book about manners for the modern world, we could hardly have imagined how much that world would change between our starting to write and it being published. Thankfully, we were able to edit and add and generally meddle with the copy almost up to the second it was printed, to include mask etiquette, what to do when you can’t shake hands, how to survive Zoom meetings with your dignity intact and other concerns that now preoccupy us.

However, in essence, when it comes to manners, really not much has changed. Good manners