When Irene Spencer meets Vera Small at her daughter Lesley's wedding reception they embark upon a correspondence that is quite unlike any other in the history of letter-writing Both Irene and Vera are happily widowed and endowed with errant offspring They live in a world of church fetes and amateur dramatics, but love nothing more than dipping their pens in the vitriol pot - while remaining the firmest of pen-pals Feisty, naughty and endlessly funny, Ladies of Letters provides a hilarious insight into suburban friendships as they really are!