Wives Like Us

<p><b>'Outrageously Jilly Cooperesque' <i>Sunday Times Style</i></b><br><br><b>Readers love <i>Wives Like Us...</i></b><br><b>'I devoured this in one day' *****<br>'Gloriously good fun' *****<br>'Absolutely delightful' *****</b><br><br>No one knows better than Ian Palmer – Executive Butler – that social position is everything in the rose-strewn Cotswolds.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Can Ian restore Tata’s country crown and reinstate her to the comforts of the Manor?<br><br><b>‘A forensically well-observed narrative . . . a shiny satirette of country living where everyone is unmuddied but filthy rich.’ <i>The Times</i><br><br>‘It may finally be time for Jilly [Cooper] to make way for a new chronicler of Cotswolds life.' <i>Daily Mail</i></b></p>