Plum Sykes is in many ways my favorite vacation author. It is light yet classy and stylish. What more could one want when lying horizontally on your sunbed? And if you read them in English – which is perfectly fine, it's not at the level of The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski after all – you also immediately catch up on that. I devoured Bergdorf Blondes and The Debutante Divorcée, but had put Party Girls Die in Pearls back a few times because the main character is much younger than the women in the other books. But now I have accepted that and I am in that delightful British-Oxford world that Plum Sykes helped shape into the woman she is. About English traditions, old money, absent-minded professors, and the study grounds of Dominic West. There. I'm back at The Affair.