The same is true in town - her 'friends' pretty much use her to arrange their lives and make their parties more pleasant and never think about her wishes twice. He doesn't love her or like her, treats her like dirt, and so does everyone else in his entourage (Kitty is expected to book hotel rooms for Ranaldini's mistresses, etc). Ranaldini is a famous conductor who married Kitty when his previous wife left - Kitty was his very efficient secretary and he didn't want to lose her services. Kitty is plain, chubby, Cockney and married to the most appalling man ever (I actually think he's the only monster in all of Cooper's books). (Sex is not included in the purchase package, but usually happens anyway).Īnd then he meets Kitty Ranaldini. So Lysander becomes the man who gets hired by these ladies to get their husbands back - by pretending to be these ladies' devoted admirer etc - as Lysander is naturally nice to people and very attractive, that is an easy easy job for him. A particular town near to London is a favorite living space for many of the England's rich and famous and, as it often goes, many of the rich wives are neglected by their husbands, either for work or for mistresses. Luckily, his fed-up friend finally finds him a job Lysander can hold down - the job of the title of the book. He's also not the sharpest tool in the drawer, can't read or write in any coherent matter due to dyslexia, and is incapable of holding down a job or even function much in real world due to just losing interest and not keeping track of anything. Lysander Hawkley is gorgeous and ridiculously nice. It's just so funny and sweet and with a creeptastic undertone and I adore the protagonists. This is probably my favorite Jilly Cooper book, even if it isn't one of her most famous ones. I basically want to be one of these characters: sauntering through pollen-clouded gardens up to cottages, awash of Giorgio, to drink Bolly a 2pm (any am or pm), integrate recitations of classic poetry into casual conversations seamlessly, and eat- or suddenly be overcome with a wave of nausea thinking about something dramatic and 'completely lose my appetite for' - salmon and cream cheese sandwiches (or something equally refrigerated and unsubstantial). I love how everyone is always 'drenching', 'dousing' and drowning themselves in heavy perfumes: Diorissimo, Chanel no.5, and Giorgio (banned for its intensity in restaurants? Internet folklore).
I like the descriptions of clothing: silk camisoles, polo shirts. As always, I tend to gloss over the details about horse events, because they're beyond me. I liked the puppy-dog disposition of his character, that matched the roiling bubble of fluff that was Kitty. I liked how Lysander's trendiness and tenderness was evinced by his propensity to preface honest statements with 'basically'.
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