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A fabulous and funny bucolic romp – Plum Sykes does it again.
A fabulous and funny bucolic romp – Plum Sykes does it again.
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!
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 marvelous characters – Tata, Minty, and their chic and crafty butler.
Delightful
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.
A stiletto-sharp look at the glamorous end of the Cotswolds. I loved it!
A riotous romp … Her unique blend of shrewd social commentary and knowing humour, with a dash of what she calls ‘affectionate satire’, is reminiscent of Nancy Mitford, PG Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh.
Wickedly funny
Hotly-anticipated
Outrageous Jilly Cooperesque
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.
An amusing flight of fancy … Wives Like Us is more Sex and the City – or Sex and the Shires – than The Code of the Woosters. It mocks its subjects while glamorising them. The book is also something of a roman à clef.
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.
A comedy of manners with an emphasis on the comedy ... In Sykes’s skilled and observant hands however madcap fare is always more than just a good time, it’s a nuanced look inside a specific world, where even the most humorous happenings can tell us something meaningful about the decidedly less glamorous lives we mere readers live.
PLUM SYKES was born in London and educated at Oxford. The author of the novels Bergdorf Blondes, The Debutante Divorcée, and Party Girls Die in Pearls, and the Kindle Single memoir Oxford Girl, she is a contributing editor at American Vogue, where she writes about fashion, society, and Hollywood. She has also written for Vanity Fair. She lives in the English countryside with her family.
A fabulous and funny bucolic romp – Plum Sykes does it again.
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!
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 marvelous characters – Tata, Minty, and their chic and crafty butler.
Delightful
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.
A stiletto-sharp look at the glamorous end of the Cotswolds. I loved it!
A riotous romp … Her unique blend of shrewd social commentary and knowing humour, with a dash of what she calls ‘affectionate satire’, is reminiscent of Nancy Mitford, PG Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh.
Wickedly funny
Hotly-anticipated
Outrageous Jilly Cooperesque
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.
An amusing flight of fancy … Wives Like Us is more Sex and the City – or Sex and the Shires – than The Code of the Woosters. It mocks its subjects while glamorising them. The book is also something of a roman à clef.
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.
A comedy of manners with an emphasis on the comedy ... In Sykes’s skilled and observant hands however madcap fare is always more than just a good time, it’s a nuanced look inside a specific world, where even the most humorous happenings can tell us something meaningful about the decidedly less glamorous lives we mere readers live.
PLUM SYKES was born in London and educated at Oxford. The author of the novels Bergdorf Blondes, The Debutante Divorcée, and Party Girls Die in Pearls, and the Kindle Single memoir Oxford Girl, she is a contributing editor at American Vogue, where she writes about fashion, society, and Hollywood. She has also written for Vanity Fair. She lives in the English countryside with her family.