About Rules of Civility book

A «sharply stylish» (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who finds herself thrust into high society, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow, now with over one million readers worldwide.

On the last night of 1937, Katey Kontent, twenty-five, is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, sits down at the next table. A chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey into the upper echelons of New York society, where she will have little to rely on but a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve.

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

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