“Wives Like Us made me laugh so hard… 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”
“A fabulous and funny bucolic romp – Plum Sykes does it again.”
“I absolutely adored Wives Like Us, I thought it was so fun and funny, a romp and a riot - and a glorious dollop of much needed escapism.”
“Wives Like Us may be set in the most gorgeous English manor house, but I’d happily sleep in the shed if it meant I could tag along with these marvellous characters—Tata, Minty, and their chic and crafty butler.”
Wives Like Us
by Plum Sykes
Bloomsbury / HB / 14 May 2024 / £18.99
'Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcée, three rich wives, two tycoons, a pair of miniature sausage dogs and one (bereaved) butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funny Wives Like Us, the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Bergdorf Blondes and Party Girls Die In Pearls, Plum Sykes.
If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then you've never visited 'The Bottoms.'
Welcome to the rose-strewn county of Oxfordshire, and the tiny 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, is refusing Tata's overtures at friendship; Tata's best friends, Sophie Thompson and Fernanda Ovington-Williams, are distracted by their own heartache, and the posh Pennybacker-Hoare sisters are plotting to prevent Tata regaining her crown as Queen of the Bottoms. Worst of all, Ian has nowhere to store his collection of vintage Gucci loafers.
Will Tata ever return to the comforts of the Manor? Will Selby find her Prince Charming? Will the Pennybacker-Hoares prevail? With the help of a pig farmer-ess 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?
‘Plum Sykes’s delectable new novel, Wives like Us, bears a strong resemblance to the Austen-era novels of the 19th century…delightful…a loving portrait of a social milieu that recognises the value of tradition but is also perpetually chasing what’s new.’ US Vogue
Praise for Plum Sykes' previous novels:
'Deliciously moreish' Daily Mail ++ 'Thoroughly fabulous' Vogue ++ 'A total hoot' The Sunday Times ++
'Sykes has a distinctive, wily and well-deployed comic voice' New York Times ++ 'Savagely funny' Observer ++
'Glam and lively' Heat ++ 'You'll have a blast' Re
Plum Sykes was born in London and educated at Oxford. The author of the novels Bergdorf Blondes, The Debutante Divorcée, Party Girls Die in Pearls and the Kindle Single memoir Oxford Girl, she is a contributing editor at World of Interiors, and at American Vogue where she writes about fashion, society, and Hollywood. She has also written for Vanity Fair.
Plum lives in the English countryside with her family.
Follow her on Instagram @therealplumsykes
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