Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: comfortable & genteelly weathered, it is home to a delightfully eccentric cast of Londoners. At the top lives William, with a faithful ex-vegetarian dog named Freddie de la Hay, & an indolent son who he hopes will soon fly the nest. Four young women share the first-floor flat, including twinset-&-pearls Caroline, & Dee, vitamin addict & avid subscriber to Anti-oxidant News. & round the corner resides 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, & his girlfriend, Barbara Ragg...?