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Take one grand English country house, one American divorcee, three rich wives, two tycoons, a pair of miniature sausage dogs and one butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funny and wickedly sharp new novel from the bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes ________________________________________________________________ If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers, and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then youve 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 Princesses. 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 dont go to plan. Bryan disappears to Venice with a bikini designer; Selby Fairfax, the glamorous American divorce who has inherited the beautiful estate next doorGreat Bottom Parkis refusing Tatas overtures at friendship; Tatas two best friends, Sophie Thompson and Fernanda Ovington-Williams, are distracted by their own problems; 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 Sophies husband start appreciating her Will Fernanda ever find a replacement Manny for her friendless son, Luca Will Selby believe in love again With the help of a pig farmer-ess moonlighting as a Personal Assistant, a male model moonlighting as a stable hand, a London barrister moonlighting as a gentleman farmer, and a hypochondriac American tech mogul lying in a hospital bed, is there any hope that Ian can restore harmony to The Bottoms

Reviews

Bright and funny: haute couture chick lit -- Candace Bushnell
Perfectly pitched playful, funny, satirical and sweet. I laughed out loud many times -- Anna Wintour * Vogue *
Plum Sykes knows her world, skewers it, and serves it up as murder. Delicious -- Delia Ephron
Sykes has a distinctive, wily and well-deployed comic voice Into the blender go Bridget Jones, Anita Loos, Sex and the City and Clueless; out comes a diabolically amusing concoction * New York Times *
A masterpiece: never has intelligence been so wickedly dark, on-point and outright funny. Its also full of lightly worn wisdom and the best kind of Id always thought but never managed to think it so clearly psychological insight. Im full of awe and admiration -- Alain de Botton
Terrific fun and really clever! -- Katie Fforde
Plum Sykes channels Nancy Mitford and Holly Golightly with great charm and sweetness -- Jane Green
An absolute hoot * Independent *
Smart, stylish and fun ... Beautifully written and deliciously moreish from start to finish * Independent *

Author Bio

Plum Sykes was born in London and educated at Oxford. She is the author of the novels Bergdorf Blondes, The Debutante Divorce, and Party Girls Die in Pearls. She is a contributing editor at World of Interiors and American Vogue. She lives in the English countryside with her daughters.