Shire Hell" is the hilarious sequel to Rachel Johnson's brilliant novel " Notting Hell" in which Mimi & Ralph have managed to escape the city & move to the idyllic Dorset countryside but have they moved out of the frying pan & into the fire? Winner of the " Literary Review's" infamous Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 2008. Mimi & Ralph have left social climbing pushy parenting & their marital problems behind them in London & moved west to the bucolic green depths of the country. Or so they though. Yes there's mud & masses of fresh air plenty of handsome hayseeds & there's Rose Mimi's new best friend & Dorset's answer to Martha Stewart. But what should be Shire Heaven is it turns out just as tricky to navigate as Notting Hell. There's low-level conflict between the racehorses in vintage/ Diesel/ Ralph Lauren & the brood mares in Barbour/ Boden there's guerrilla warfare between the landowners & eco-warriors & naked hostility between Old Money New Money & No Money. Yes in Honeybourne if you don't have: a landscaped garden with 1 000 acres (minimum) of prime land; a helipad for your trophy guests; an organic farm shop selling sixteen sorts of home-made sausages; four pony-mad polo-playing children; a Literary Festival in your mini-stately; & a bottom that looks smackable in jodhpurs. Then well.. .you're Mimi basically. & that's just the start of her problems. Mimi also has a secret. But can she keep it? Rachel Johnson is known for her wickedly funny novels " The Mummy Diaries" & " Notting Hell"; also available from Penguin is her first non-fiction book "A Diary of a Lady"."