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Longer engagements require a bit more planning. In asking others to notice our birthdays, we acknowledge our place in the world.' Hideous though the term ‘self-care’ may be, there is something in it.

“Clothes shopping, exercise and complementary therapies are all fine, but they should be preambles, not the endgame. “Making a nine-hour round trip to collect a child from university, doing housework (unless in preparation for a party) or box-set bingeing with a family pack of Minstrels will lead to intrusive thoughts such as ‘Am I a complete loser?’” she writes. The Guardian and Financial Times contributor Sophie Hastings recommends we celebrate our birthdays, because ignoring the date can be so dreary.

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There are no, old-school, Emily Post-style instructions on how to conduct oneself in a social setting, but instead, soft, personal advice from writers who have learned by doing – or not doing, as the case may be. It’s a wide-ranging, engaging, and – at times – very funny read. Featuring contributions from he Sunday Times’ Marina O’Loughlin, the Observer columnist Eva Wiseman, and the magazine’s editor, Penny Martin, among many others, Modern Manners covers everything from holidays to toiletries god-parenting to apologising. Thankfully, the essays in this new collection from the publishers of The Gentlewoman will fall into the former, rather than the latter category. In our new book, Modern Manners, The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins quotes the English writer and critic Henry Hitchings, who cleverly distinguishes “between manners (meant to put others at ease) and etiquette (meant to put them on guard).” Our new book from The Gentlewoman has some smart advice for every social situation Pages from Modern Manners Modern Manners and socialising

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