Watching The English

She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more.

Softcover. English. Hodder & Stoughton. 2005. ISBN: 9780340818862. 432 pp. Good. Book No: 52616