Rules of Everything

THE RULES TO BREAK

By the time The Rules of Love was published I was getting a lot of messages from younger readers, many in their early to mid-teens, or still at school or university. I didn’t particularly want to put together a book of Rules that were exclusive to this age group, and in any case that would be difficult because – as these readers were telling me – the Rules apply across all age groups. However, these readers were finding many of the books somewhat premature from their viewpoint, such as The Rules of Management, or Parenting, and I did want to give them something broader that would be as relevant to them as to everyone else.

I’d long been collecting traditional rules which my experience told me didn’t actually work, or not ...