Wives Like Usmade 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

Take a grand English country house, one(heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, twotycoons, a pair of miniature sausage dogs and one(bereaved)butler;put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funnyWives Like Us, the new novel from the best-selling author ofBergdorf BlondesandParty Girls Die In Pearls, Plum Sykes.

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 L