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Rupert Campbell-Black, all-conquering racehorse owner-trainer and handsomest man in England, is in the darkest of places. Rupert is now sixty years old, and in his personal life anyway he has seemed to have calmed down, especially after Taggie’s diagnosis. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Normally there are many characheter backgrounds and situtions happening and they become interwoven throughout the book and with other characters. I’ve read every single book by this author, and often re-read them - they’re like a comfort blanket.

She reminds us that beneath the surface people, famous or otherwise, are often hiding an emotional or physical pain that is not always visible or understood. Back in the summer of 1986 I was on holiday with my parents, we were swapping books when my mum gave me Riders to read and thus started my love affair with Rupert Campbell Black. Her stories could well be wish-fulfilment fiction, a device often disparaged in scholarly circles but, honestly, what’s wrong with a happy ending? You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Fun, frivolous, happy, sad - Cooper will never again reach the dizzy heights of Riders and Rivals, but I loved this, nonetheless. If you don’t believe me, you can’t have been a teenager in thrall to the storytelling of Jilly Cooper CBE in the Eighties and Nineties. Critics might say she’s silly, sexist, and hardly Chaucer, but I say making women feel seen, hopeful, and happy takes a rare sort of genius.

Not one I'd go back to, unlike the early books which always cheer me up, but a pleasant enough read for a grey, damp January. However, the book was so jam packed with different personalities lurching from crisis to crisis, it lacked some of the warmth and depth of her previous work and made it hard to invest in the big storylines and relationships.I also find it unnecessary that dogs and horses get equal character footing to humans but perhaps that says more about me than Jilly. With many of the old favourites now spanning a world between football and horses I was not disappointed. Poor Taggie is a wreck (endless references to her “grey curls” – she’s only about forty, hair dye is a thing) and Rupert doesn’t sizzle with anyone. If it hadn't been the first book of this year's reading challenge, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.

d., and editorial director Sally Williamson acquired world English language rights to Cooper’s latest romp from Felicity Blunt at Curtis Brown. I detect that she has strong views on the quality of the catering in football boardrooms, so perhaps they talked avidly of flaky pastry. It’s true that Cooper has always championed women’s desire – no one has a better time in bed than her heroines. I’d been feeling sad that this might be the last of Cooper’s novels, but this is an absolute stinker. isn’t, by a long shot, Cooper’s best book; the ball, you might say, doesn’t quite find the back of the net.See also pompous suggestions that they’re just ‘guilty pleasures’ – nothing more than ironic peccadilloes. It will be published on 9th November 2023 accompanied by a "major marketing campaign focusing on booksellers and driving sales right up to Christmas and beyond", Transworld said.