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|title=Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners
|author=Sandi Toksvig
|publisher=Profile Books
|date=October 2013
|website=http://www.sanditoksvig.com
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|summary=A delightfully entertaining but also useful book on manners. Buy a copy for everyone you know as a quote unquote novely gift you secretly hope they read every page of.
|cover=1781250324
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Dear Sandi
You are my all time favourite celebrity lesbadyke, and one of the reasons I’m I'm so very excited to be heading to Denmark this coming weekend (are all people there like you? Please say yes). For this alone, I had to get my mitts on your latest offering. I wasn’t that fussed about obtaining a book on manners previously, having always thought mine were quite ok, but I knew your take on the matter would be suitably hilarious and well worth a read. I was not wrong.
You’ve written the book in a series of letters to a young friend called Mary, and that’s why I’ve modelled my response like this, because I thought it made for charming reading and made the whole experience a bit more personal. Mary, we are led to believe, is a perfectly sweet girl, but she is still a girl for now, and so you’ve written a guide for her as she grows up, so she can avoid the types of faux pas that come from not knowing which way round to hold a fork or how best to get on in a shared house (wearing clothes in public areas and cleaning up after yourself seem to be the key points). Now most of your readers will be older than Mary is at present, but that’s no bother. There’s lots for everyone to learn and enjoy here.
