A New York Times Bestseller
An elegant and captivating debut novel‚ Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent‚ a young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect‚ a bracing wit‚ and her own brand of cool nerve‚ Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of 1938 New York City society.