Vogue writer Plum Skyes who satirises her 'bored and rich' Cotswolds 隣人s in hotly-心配するd new 調書をとる／予約する Wives Like Us sends 井戸／弁護士席-heeled 地元のs into a frenzy as they try to guess who the characters are based on

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Author and Vogue writer Plum Sykes is 報道によれば 原因（となる）ing a major 動かす with her new novel 始める，決める in the Cotswolds, as 地元のs try to guess who the main characters are based on.

The 調書をとる／予約する, Wives Like Us, sees the bored spouses of uber 豊富な men 'fight for social 最高位', によれば the Times.

によれば the 出口, the Cotswolds' setting of the novel is 'certainly of the moment', as fascination with the area has 増加するd in 最近の years.

This, it explains, is 大部分は 予定 to the 'stream of rich Londoners [who] started decamping there during Covid'.

の中で those with 所有物／資産／財産s in the area are Jeremy Clarkson, the Camerons, Richard Hammond, Dom Joly, Tony Adams, the Beckhas and Jilly Cooper の中で others.

Author Plum Skyes (pictured in June 2023) has 報道によれば 原因（となる）d a 動かす with her new novel Wives Like Us, which is based in the Cotswolds

The Cotswolds is fascinating to many people, 大部分は du e to the large number of prolific 居住（者）s, 含むing the Camerons who have a home in the area (pictured L-R: Plum Sykes; Samantha Cameron)

Plum Sykes with another of her glamorous 知識s, editor and 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Anna Wintour (pictured in New York in 2017)

Plum Sykes' new novel Wives Like Us (pictured) has 報道によれば 原因（となる）d やめる a 動かす in the Cotswolds, where it is 始める，決める

Additionally, King Charles' niece Zara Tindall?and her husband マイク have lived in Cheltenham and Princess Annes' Gatcombe 広い地所, in the heart of the Cotswolds.

初めは from Kent, Plum moved to London, then to the Cotswolds in 2013 with then-husband Toby Rowland.

As someone who enjoyed riding, Plum says she noticed that in contrast to the 伝統的な country look of wellies and Barbour jackets, she noticed more and more 'overdressed women' taking to the stables.

This, she 述べるs, was like a 'satire waiting to happen', with everyone 消費するd with social 苦悩 and looking 負かす／撃墜する on each other.??

Wives Like Us is based in a fictional area called the 底（に届く）s, 焦点（を合わせる）ing on four 女性（の） friends, and told through the 視野 of friendly, gay butler Ian.

Main character Tata Hawkins, 述べるd as a footballer's wife type (dressed in an 'expensively sexy way wearing a Bottega Veneta calfskin jacket, 壇・綱領・公約 gold heels and diamonds') has just 分裂（する） from her husband Bryan, after she 設立する a 領収書 for a diamond necklace, moving out of their 株d house.

Other characters 含む American heiress and 離婚 Selby Fairfax, who lives in the best 広い地所 in the 底（に届く）s, and who everyone wants to befriend.

Aristocrat Sophie Thompson (完全にする with MP husband) and half-Venezuelan half-Swedish heiress Fernanda Ovington-Williams 完全にする the main cast.

Winston Churchill’s 広大な／多数の／重要な-granddaughter Clementine Fraser is の中で Plum's Cotswold's 隣人s and friends

American Amanda Brooks is the owner of the 切断機，沿岸警備艇 Brooks 小売 chain and a 居住（者） of the Cotswolds

Plum 述べるs Carole Bamford, 創立者 of the?Daylesford 有機の Farmshop chain, as the?'絶対の queen' of the Cotswolds

まっただ中に 'outrageous Jilly Cooperesque shenanigans and histrionics', Tata 試みる／企てるs to get 支援する together with Bryan, and move 支援する into her large, former home, all the while trying to 始める，決める up Selby with a 'mysterious oligarch' character.

Plum herself lives around an hour away from an area known as the Tews.

She is friends with many prolific Cotswolds 地元のs, which, によれば the Times, 'all of whom are namechecked as the ones her fictional wives 始める，決める their sights on'.

の中で this 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） is?the 創立者 of the Daylesford 有機の Farmshop chain Carole Bamford, who Plum 述べるs as the '絶対の queen' of the area.

の中で the Cotswolds 始める，決める - and Plum Sykes' friends - is Jemima 旅宿泊所 (pictured in February 2023)

Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece is の中で those who has 報道によれば been 'namechecked' as an inspiration for a character in the novel

Vogue stylist Tabitha Simmons has also been 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d の中で those who could have 奮起させるd a character in the novel

Others 含む Jemima 旅宿泊所, Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, and?Winston Churchill’s 広大な／多数の／重要な-granddaughter Clementine Fraser の中で others.

And finally, on the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of possible inspirations for the characters are American Amanda Brooks, owner of the 切断機，沿岸警備艇 Brooks 小売 chain, and Vogue stylist Tabitha Simmons.?

述べるd as 'a perfectly placed social 観察者／傍聴者 in this world', Plum has remained tight-lipped about who Tata and the others are 特に based on.

But this hasn't stopped 憶測 over the question.?

によれば the Times, a Chipping Norton 地元の said everyone is trying to work out who Tata is based on, 追加するing 'it's creating やめる the スキャンダル, you know'.?