Rachel Johnson

It’s hard work having fun: Wives Like Us, by Plum Sykes, reviewed

A ride with friends involves dressing to the nines and stopping at a Marie Antoinette-style ‘hameau’ for sloe-gin cocktails – served by uniformed staff and filmed for Instagram

Plum Sykes, photographed last year at Aynhoe Park, Banbury. [Getty Images] 
issue 18 May 2024
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  • Wives Like Us

    Plum Sykes

    Bloomsbury, pp. 384, £18

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