Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: a temple of Arts & Crafts architecture, with comforting, weathered brickwork & frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to a delightfully eccentric cast of Londoners. In the top flat lives William, with a faithful ex-vegetarian dog named Freddie de la Hay & a freeloading son who he hopes will soon fly the nest. Four lively young women share the first-floor flat, including twinset-&-pearls Caroline from Cheltenham, Dee, vitamin addict & avid subscriber to Anti-oxidant News, & Jenny, a put-upon PA. & round the corner lives Oedipus Snark MP, possibly the world`s only loathsome Lib Dem, who has succeeded in offending everyone he knows, & many others besides. But what dark revenge is being plotted by his mother, Berthea Snark, & by his girlfriend, Barbara Ragg...?