Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: an Arts and Crafts beauty with comforting weathered brickwork and frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to some delightfully eccentric Londoners. In the top flat lives William, with his wastrel son and an ex-vegetarian dog named Freddie de la Hay. Four lively young women share the first floor, including twinset-and-pearls Caroline, vitamin-addict Dee, and Jenny, a put-upon PA. And round the corner lives Oedipus Snark MP, the loathsome Lib Dem who has succeeded in offending everyone he knows. But what dark revenge is being plotted by his mother, Berthea Snark, and by his girlfriend, Barbara Ragg?