What Your Mother Should've Told You

A compendium of essential life lessons for the modern age.

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From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for a new generation. If you've ever lost sleep over how to end a friendship or how to recover from an email faux pas at work, or you want to learn how to speak in public or you simply want the secret to happiness, What Your Mother Should've Told You and Nobody Else Will gives you all the answers. With everything from homespun wisdoms and invaluable life lessons to navigating the minefield of 21st-century dilemmas and manners, here are all those things your mother should have taught you, but you weren't ready to hear at the time.