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Жительницы одного из самых престижных районов Лондона, их мужья и дети...

Эти семьи живут в своем "маленьком раю", как в феодальном замке, отгороженном от окружающего мира. Они плетут интриги, заключают союзы и ведут "междоусобные" войны.

Они изменяют супругам - и тотчас сожалеют о содеянном. Они дружат, предают друзей и сами становятся жертвами предательств.

Они - живут. Смеются, плачут, влюбляются и надеются.
Сменяются поколения, но правила игры остаются неизменными…

Rachel Johnson’s hilarious take on life as a yummy mummy in West London and on Exmoor has been making her newspaper readers chortle for the last couple of years: now they are seamlessly turned into a diary of her year, from the dog’s birthday party in January (games of Paws-the-Parcel) to the June sports days (where the mummies turn up at the school sports day in sports bras and running shorts with little back packs containing high energy drinks – and that’s just for them) to summer on Exmoor hosting demanding visiting ponies.

Mimi and Ralph have left social climbing, pushy parenting and their marital problems behind them in London, and moved west to the bucolic green depths of the country. Or so they thought. Yes, there's mud and masses of fresh air, plenty of handsome hayseeds and there's Rose, Mimi's new best friend and Dorset's answer to Martha Stewart. But what should be Shire Heaven is, it turns out, just as tricky to navigate as Notting Hell.

There's low-level conflict between the racehorses in vintage/Diesel/Ralph Lauren and the brood mares in Barbour/Boden, there's guerrilla warfare between the landowners and eco-warriers and naked hostility between Old Money, New Money and No Money. Yes, in honeybourne, if you don't have:

1) A landscaped garden within 1000 acres (minimum) of prime land

2) A helipad for your trophy guests

3) An organic farm shop selling 16 sorts of home-made sausages

4) Four pony-mad polo-playing children

5) A literary festival in your mini-stately

6) A bottom that looks smackable in jodhpurs

Then, well...you're Mimi basically. And that's just the start of her problems. Mimi also has a secret. But can she keep it?

Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving "The Lady", Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, "A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor". 'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies and flag-waving patriotism and jam still for tea, some sunny day.' Appointed editor of "The Lady" - the oldest women's weekly in the world - Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start, how do you become an editor when you've never, well, edited? How do you turn a venerable title, full of ads for walk-in baths, during the worst recession ever? And forget doubling the circulation in a year - what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants? Will Rachel save "The Lady" - or sink it? "Action-packed, entertaining, marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist and has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing". ("Sunday Times"). "She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her away from a penis". (Mrs Julia Budworth, co-owner, "The Lady"). "A total romp, wonderfully readable, unflinchingly described". ("Guardian"). "Hysterical. For the first time, everyone is talking about "The Lady" for reasons other than nannies". (Piers Morgan). Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels and two volumes of diaries. "The Mummy Diaries", "Notting Hell", "Shire Hell" and "A Diary of The Lady" are all available now from Penguin.