'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
