Manners Novels

The Heirs

Susan Reiger's The Heirs is a blend of manners novel and family saga. The story opens with the death of…

5 years ago

Past Imperfect

I really enjoyed Julian Fellowes' Snobs, a drily observational manners novel in which a marchioness sticks to her childhood nickname…

5 years ago

Rouge

Rouge, by Richard Kirshenbaum, is the story of rival cosmetics empires, as well as a look at appearances and perceptions. The…

5 years ago

The East End

The East End by Jason Allen is an upstairs-downstairs of the Hamptons, where everyone has a different style of misery. The…

6 years ago

That Churchill Woman

Stephanie Barron's new novel, That Churchill Woman blends historical scandal with a manners novel.  Throughout the book, Jennie Jerome shows…

6 years ago