In the money-soaked villages of the Cotswolds, appearances are everything—and nobody understands that better than Mimi Langford and the glamorous women who rule the country-house social scene. Mimi once seemed to have the perfect life: a magnificent manor, an enviable marriage, an adored daughter, and Julian, the impeccably capable butler who could solve almost any crisis. Then a suspicious jewelry receipt, a younger woman, and a flood of delicious gossip send her carefully curated world into free fall. Determined to reclaim both her husband and her place at the top of local society, Mimi turns a new friendship with glamorous American heiress Evelyn March into the centerpiece of an increasingly elaborate comeback plan. What follows is a whirlwind of extravagant parties, matchmaking disasters, rival wives, romantic misunderstandings, secret affairs, status anxiety, and one billionaire whose marital history proves spectacularly inconvenient. Beneath the designer dresses and manicured gardens lies a sharp, affectionate comedy about friendship, marriage, reinvention, and the absurd lengths people will go to protect the lives everyone else envies.
In the money-soaked villages of the Cotswolds, appearances are everything—and nobody understands that better than Mimi Langford and the glamorous women who rule the country-house social scene. Mimi once seemed to have the perfect life: a magnificent manor, an enviable marriage, an adored daughter...