"Home is what the English have instead of social skills"

I am currently reading this very funny book.

I am learning all about the different classes and how to tell them apart. And about how rude I have been - I have been known to introduce myself straight out, without even commenting on the weather! Shocking.

Although I would propose that new owners complaining the existing decor in a house is not because they are English, but because the previous owners were.

And I am only half way through. I can't wait to find out the rules about sex.

* not on the train though - I hide behind my newspaper as well as any local