What is the etiquette for internet use, emails and mobile phone calls? How does one handle the delicate politics of flat-sharing? This work provides answers to these and other dilemmas of modern decorum. Covering all situations - weddings, work, throwing a party, visits to a restaurant - it gives advice on how behave in the twenty-first century.
Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes the promise and certainties of this world all too rapidly disintegrate into mystery and deception...