'Very barbed and funny' -- Publishing News 'With consumate skill the authors have once again skewered our national smugness' -- Nicky Haslam 'Opening a volume by Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape always fills me with delicious apprehension. I know that, in no time, I will be chuckling away at the absurdities of someone who is awfully like me' -- Julian Fellowes 'A dazzling combination' -- Jilly Cooper 'They have a mind-reader's gift for rooting around inside our heads, and serving up every last nuance and pretention as spot-on social comedy' -- Nicholas Coleridge

Victoria Mather is a journalist, broadcaster and television presenter. She is travel editor of Tatler, a regular on Radio 4's Loose Ends with Ned Sherrin, and was described by A. A. Gill as an ocean-going snob, akin only to one of P. G. Wodehouse's awe-inspiring aunts, for her performance in Channel 4's series The Dinner Party Inspectors. Victoria has one Pekingese, Bubble, eleven godchildren and lives between her husband John Raymond in London, and her hairdresser John Barrett in New York.