Wives Like Us

Bloomsbury presents Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes, read by Annabel Mullion. ‘Outrageously Jilly Cooperesque‘ Sunday Times Style Readers love Wives Like Us... ‘I devoured this in one day‘ ***** ‘Gloriously good fun‘ ***** ‘Absolutely delightful‘ ***** No one knows better than Ian Palmer – Executive Butler – that social position is everything in the rose-strewn Cotswolds. So when his boss, Tata Hawkins, flounces out of her (new-build) manor house after a row with husband Bryan, Ian is alarmed: for one thing, if Tata is on the social slide downwards, that means he is too; for another, he‘s lost his home and has nowhere to store his prized collection of vintage Gucci loafers; even worse, a vacuum among the Country Princess set has opened up for a new Queen Bee. With the old-money Pennybacker-Hoare sisters plotting to rid ‘their‘ county of Tata and her ilk, a bikini influencer on the prowl for a husband just like Mr. Hawkins, a glamorous American divorcee threatening to steal Tata‘s crown, and the heiress-next-door threatening to steal Ian, the Cotswolds are in chaos. Can Ian restore Tata‘s country crown and reinstate her to the comforts of the Manor? ‘A forensically well-observed narrative . . . a shiny satirette of country living where everyone is unmuddied but filthy rich.‘ The Times ‘It may finally be time for Jilly [Cooper] to make way for a new chronicler of Cotswolds life.‘ Daily Mail