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Wives Like Us
Wives Like Us
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Wives Like Us is a hilarious and satirical novel set in the glamorous Cotswolds, following the lives of four wealthy women and their butler. The book has received widespread praise for its witty writing, charming characters, and delightful portrayal of the English countryside.
Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 14 May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Outrageously Jilly Cooperesque
Sunday Times Style
Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcée, three rich wives, two tycoons, and one (bereaved) butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funny Wives Like Us. Welcome to the rose-strewn county of Oxfordshire and the Cotswold villages of Little Bottom, Middle Bottom, Great Bottom, and Monkton Bottom, recently annexed by a glittering new breed of female: the Country Princess. Following a ghastly row about a missing suite of diamonds, Tata Hawkins has flounced out of Monkton Bottom Manor with her daughter, Minty, and Executive Butler Ian Palmer in tow, decamping to the Old Coach House to teach her husband, Bryan, a lesson. But things don't go to plan: Bryan disappears to Venice with a bikini designer; Selby Fairfax, the glamorous American divorcée who has inherited the beautiful estate next door, refuses Tata's neighborly overtures; and Tata's very best friends, Fernanda Ovington-Williams and Sophie Thompson, are distracted by their own heartaches. Worst of all, Ian has nowhere to store his collection of vintage Gucci loafers. With the help of a pig farmereress moonlighting as a personal assistant, a male model moonlighting as a stable hand, and a London barrister moonlighting as a gentleman farmer, can Ian restore harmony to the Bottoms?
So wickedly smart, so effortless, so chic and hilarious.
Plum Sykes is in a class of her own when it comes to peeling back the layers of status paranoia amongst the poshest of the posh as she delivers a delectable tale that you never want to end.
Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians
The brilliantly satirical new novel that's got the Cotswolds smart set buzzing with speculation... it may finally be time for Jilly [Cooper] to make way for a new queen of comedy.
Weight: 582g
Dimension: 242 x 160 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408888575
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