So I'm at Borders and after 3 hours (including a dark chocolate mocha YUM!) I decide to brave the queue. While patiently standing there I noticed a book. . .well it wasn't the book so much that I noticed but the Authors name.

Alice Williams. . not a particularly uncommon name. . .but could it be. . .Alice, my friend from High School, with whom I'd lost touch (maybe drifted apart- not sure. High school seems like a lifetime ago)?

Now my dilemma, I'm close to the end of the queue. . .I could be out of the shop and on my way to the studio or home in minutes. . .but I have an inkling feeling. I break away from the line to check the copyright page:

Williams, Alice, 1979-

yep that sounds right, I find the bio:

Lives in Melbourne

Flip the book over and there she is (well it actually looks more like her older sister than Alice, but we're all allowed to mature)

So back to the line for me with another book in my pile. I wouldn't usually buy a book like this (Etiquette with a comic twist), but we gotta support those we know (or knew). An image keeps repeating in my mind of Alice telling me the story of how she took the tram all the way from school to the train station with her skirt tucked into her underpants, I guess she was always a good story teller. . . and I vaguely remember her writing an agony aunt column in the school almanac/paper or something along those lines (I may be totally wrong about that last bit).

My review (yes I read it last night. . .still not sleeping)

It's cute, witty, insightful and I did laugh out loud a few times. Now maybe if I didn't stay up all night reading the damn thing I'd have something witty and cute to say myself. . .

Would it Kill you to say please? A guide to modern manners. By Alice Williams

Well done Alice (or as we of lesser breeding would say "'On ya Al")

LB