Wives Like Us: The perfect holiday read: Plum Sykes: Bloomsbury Publishing

Wives Like Us

The perfect holiday read

Wives Like Us

The perfect holiday read

Description

'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

Product details

Published	30 Sep 2025
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	368
ISBN	9781408888537
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions	198 x 129 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Plum Sykes

Plum Sykes was born in London and educated at Oxfo…

Outrageously Jilly Cooperesque

Sunday Times Style
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 chronicler of Cotswolds life.

Daily Mail
A forensically well-observed narrative ... will it do for the Cotswolds what F Scott Fitzgerald did for the Hamptons ... a shiny satirette of country living where everyone is unmuddied but filthy rich.

The Times
A stiletto-sharp look at the glamorous end of the Cotswolds. I loved it!

Katie Fforde
A fabulous and funny bucolic romp – Plum Sykes does it again.

Hannah Rothschild, author of The Improbability of Love
Wives Like Us made me laugh so hard I actually knocked over my lamp. Can a book be so wickedly smart, so effortless, so chic and hilarious that you would stumble through the night to find a new lightbulb just so you can keep reading way past your bedtime? In a word, yes. 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. I would risk all the lamps in my house to read stand-alone novels about every single character in this book!

Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians