This is no self-help book. It does not aspire to unveil the secret to happiness, or teach us the latest recipe for success.

It aims to follow in Montaigne’s tracks: something as simple as sharing what we consider to be good, those little things that make life more worth living, and which we often keep to ourselves for fear of speaking out of turn. Tips, advice, musings, quotations and memories are interwoven in a tale that straddles philosophy and pure humanity, in which daily readings point the way forward, charting a course through the fog of the everyday.

A treatise on good manners for the 21st century, a guide on how to be a better person, the finest possible gift to our fellow men.