Mount!

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It's truly dreadful, could have been half the size if Jilly hadn't spent so much time summarising events and relationships from previous RCB novels. While there is relatively limited shaming, there is unnecessary reveling in excess, with anything involving into alcohol devolving into orgiastic celebrations or, in one case, an actual orgy. There were a number of rather distasteful elements to the novel as well - some casual racism, particularly, that raised my eyebrows. I first remember meeting the great stallion that is Rupert Campbell-Black as an impressionable eleven-year-old and indulging in the delights of Riders and Rivals and living every moment of Taggie capturing his heart.

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It is a world in which you can tell who the baddies are because they go to elocution lessons, participate in “fain dining” and have vulgar gardens. In this book his main aim is to have his stallion Love Rat become leading sire, but the competition is stiff and his enemies are out to thwart him. The novel’s success rescued the Coopers financially (“The bank manager had said we had to sell the house, we were completely broke”) and set light to the publishing world. Back to Mount - I got confused over the sheer amount of stable hands and couldn't work who was who and who they worked for.

There are new love affairs, adulterous couplings, lecherous bonking and even a salacious orgy, hosted by the icky competitor trying to get damning video for blackmail purposes. I'm scanning my way through the endless chapters on the intricacies of a local horse race in the hope of finding a few words on humans, preferably one I know, or a crumb or two of humour or raunch. A difficult mixture of barbed and hilarious class observations, a naturally warm writing style and a massive soppy heart that always sides with the underdog makes Cooper frankly irresistible, and Mount is no different. Long-time fans may regret one of the major storylines, which may ruin some of the characters for you if you like your romances "safe" (and given Appassionata, feels a bit out-of-character).

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He longs to trounce Roberto’s Revenge, the stallion owned by his detested rival Cosmo Rannaldini, which means abandoning his racing empire at Penscombe and his darling wife Taggie, and chasing winners in the richest races worldwide, from Dubai to Los Angeles to Melbourne. Jilly Cooper has a gift for creating memorable characters and she even manages to make the animals in her stories into characters. Tearing after her, I forgot to take a lead and was reduced to taking off my bra behind a hedge and using it to lead her home.

by the death of his life-long companion, Billy Lloyd-Foxe, who always had a stabilizing and humanizing effect on Rupert’s behaviour.

Jilly Cooper’s sensational classic from the Sunday Riders: Jilly Cooper’s sensational classic from the Sunday

Unable to have children, she and Leo were in the process of adopting a baby (Felix, followed later by Emily) when she met Godfrey Smith, then editor of the Sunday Times magazine, at a dinner, and regaled him with the details of life as a young wife.

The national /racial /xenophobic stereotypes are getting ever more cringe worthy and if you're female you've still got to loose weight to get your man.

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Also some very crude national stereotypes (which to be fair has always been the case but particularly glaring here). The couple had known each other since 1945 (when Jilly Sallitt was about eight), although they did not marry until she was 24 and he was 27. We have published a new cookies policy, which you should read to find out more about the cookies we use. When I got to the end I actually re-read the last couple of chapters as I wasn't ready to let the story go yet.As a 14-year-old fan I was frankly astounded that such a thing as a vulgar garden could exist, but apparently it can.