This quirky and engaging history reveals the secrets of one of our most ancient social gestures
Ella Al-Shamahi is a National Geographic Explorer, palaeoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist and stand-up comic. Specialising in in Neanderthals, caves and expeditions in hostile, disputed and unstable territories, she is also a TV presenter, a TED speaker and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has degrees in Genetics, Taxonomy and Biodiversity, and is currently undertaking her PhD in Palaeoanthropology.
Al-Shamahi's beguiling book has a more general claim to attention
than merely being an account of the crisis in manners that Covid
has made ... cheerful, witty and well-researched.
*Spectator*
It's a little book of wonder, it's fantastic
*Chris Evans*
A fabulously sparky, wide-ranging and horizon-broadening little
study ... joyously unboring
*Sunday Times*
Having not particularly missed shaking hands over the past year, I
ended this very engaging little book so desperate to get started
again that I'm in danger of becoming a super-spreader.
*Telegraph*
[Ella Al-Shamahi] makes a convincing argument that in the
not-so-distant future we will once again be clasping the clammy,
germ-ridden paws of near-strangers. I can't wait.
*Daily Mail*
Brisk, quirky and good-humoured
*The Business Post*
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