What is it like to live the wonderful life? In People Like Us, Charles Jennings is the suburban outsider trying to make sense of the closed, privileged, self-indulgent world of being born and raised in another way of life. From the great social functions of the Season, to private parties in Kensington, to almost anything to do with horses, People Like Us is fascinating, appalling, argumentative, mocking, envious, and wickedly funny.