RULES OF CIVILITY by Amor Towles, read by Graeme Malcolm and Rebecca Lowman - audiobook extract
b"For fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, this a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938.\\n\\nIn a New York City jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew:\\n\\n- how to sneak into the cinema, and steal silk stockings from Bendel's\\n- how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year\\n- that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine\\n\\nBy the end of the year she'll have learned:\\n\\n- how to live like a redhead and insist upon the very best\\n- that chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison\\n- that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat..."