Wives Like Us
Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes is a humorous novel published by HarperCollins Publishers on May 6, 2025. This edition spans 368 pages and is presented in English. The story unfolds in the picturesque yet quirky Cotswold villages of Oxfordshire, where the lives of its residents are anything but ordinary. The narrative centers around Tata Hawkins, who, after a dramatic fallout involving a missing suite of diamonds, leaves her home with her daughter and butler, setting off a series of unexpected events that challenge her social standing and relationships.
Readers will encounter a vibrant cast of characters, including glamorous divorcées and scheming socialites, as they navigate friendship, family life, and the complexities of domestic existence. The plot thickens with Tata’s attempts to reclaim her status while dealing with her husband’s unexpected escapades and the machinations of her rivals. With elements of humor and satire, Wives Like Us explores themes of divorce and the dynamics of motherhood, all set against the backdrop of a seemingly idyllic countryside that hides its own set of challenges.
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“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.” –Kevin Kwan
Now in paperback, the impossibly funny Wives Like Us, the new novel from the bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes, Plum Sykes.
If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then you’ve never visited ‘The Bottoms.’
Welcome to the rose-strewn county of Oxfordshire, and the tony Cotswold villages of Little Bottom, Middle Bottom, Great Bottom, and Monkton Bottom, recently annexed by a glittering new breed of female: the Country Princess.
Following a ghastly row about a missing suite of diamonds, Tata Hawkins has flounced out of Monkton Bottom Manor with her daughter, Minty, and Executive Butler Ian Palmer in tow, decamping to The Old Coach House to teach her husband Bryan a lesson.
But things don’t go to plan: Bryan disappears to Venice with a bikini designer; Selby Fairfax, the glamorous American divorcée who has inherited the beautiful estate next door, is refusing Tata’s overtures at friendship; Tata’s best friends, Sophie Thompson and Fernanda Ovington-Williams, are distracted by their own heartache, and the posh Pennybacker-Hoare sisters are plotting to prevent Tata regaining her crown as Queen of the Bottoms. Worst of all, Ian has nowhere to store his collection of vintage Gucci loafers.
Will Tata ever return to the comforts of the Manor? Will Selby find her Prince Charming? Will the Pennybacker-Hoares prevail? With the help of a pig farmer-ess moonlighting as a Personal Assistant, a male model moonlighting as a stable hand and a London barrister moonlighting as a gentleman farmer, can Ian restore harmony to The Bottoms?
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