The impossibly funny and wickedly sharp new novel from the bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes.

'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

"Outrageously Jilly Cooperesque" - Sunday Times Style

"The brilliantly satirical new novel that's got the Cotswolds smart set buzzing with speculation ... it may be finally 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

"Delightful" - Vogue

"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." - The Lady

"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." - Town & Country

"Wickedly funny" - Citizen Femme

"Hotly-anticipated" - Mail Online

"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." - The Spectator

"The best-accessorised novel of the season." - Saga

"It's stuffed with fascinating characters wearing fabulous clothes. I loved it." - Daily Mail

"A riotous, delightful read." - Woman's Own