Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your Problems Solved | 17 January 2004

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 17 January 2004

Dear Mary…

Q. As the author of a number of bestselling books, I am naturally thankful for this success, but one consequence is a deluge of requests to sit on committees, judge awards, champion the voiceless, network for the jobless, and so on. It sounds curmudgeonly and pompous, but the truth is that I now have barely a moment to call my own.

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