Wives Like Us

THE AUTHOR: Renowned for her deliciously wicked satires as well as her fashion and interiors journalism, Plum Sykes has a dedicated following who will be chomping at the bit for her first novel in several years. This time, she turns her gimlet eye to the English country set.

“A rollicking murder mystery. . . . a wildly entertaining romp. . . . Laugh? I died.” — Vogue on Party Girls Die in Pearls
“As fizzy and moreish (Britspeak for ‘delectable’) as a glass of pink champagne, this murder mystery by a fashionista turned fiction writer uncorks a detective series set at England’s august Oxford College. . . . But this novel is more than a chick-lit whodunit. In the telling, Sykes, an Oxford alum herself, lays bare the institution’s arcane norms and reconstructs the scene of a crime against humanity: the over-the-top decadence of the Material Girl era.”   — O, the Oprah Magazine on Party Girls Die in Pearls
“Take one posh university, mix in a queen bee, throw in a murder, and you’ve got a mystery that makes Heathers look almost snoozy.” — Cosmopolitan on Party Girls Die in Pearls
“Into the blender go Anita Loos, Bridget Jones, Sex and the City, and Clueless; out comes a diabolically amusing concoction.” — New York Times on Bergdorf Blondes
“Perfectly pitched—playful, funny, satirical and sweet. I laughed out loud many times.” — Anna Wintour on Bergdorf Blondes