Mount!: The fast-paced, riotous new adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author Jilly Cooper

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Valent Edwards says “bluddy” because he is from Yorkshire, but how else would you pronounce “bloody”? He also says “fooking”, but what accent is that? Paris Alvaston, trying to teach public schoolboy wannabe footballers how to talk common (because “footballers resent public schoolboys”), advises that they start saying “pass” to rhyme with “gas”, by which I guess one infers that the working classes of the home counties also have to adjust their accents to play football because they are only allowed to come from Leicester. I’ve always adored horses and, in writing Mount!, I’ve been privileged to meet some of the finest in the world. The great Frankel, for example, is turning out to be as wonderful a sire as he was racehorse, and lives with a lovely tabby cat friend called George. I have also shaken hooves with gentle Gallileo in Ireland, who has been leading sire for the past seven years. Equally excitingly, I went to the World Cup in Dubai, which takes place in the desert under an indigo sky, where the top horses race for multi-million prizes. After some amazing fireworks, all the stars come down to cheer on the equine stars. It is so romantic.

Claire Rushbrook as Cathy Rowley in Sherwood. (Image credit: BBC/House Productions/Matt Squire) Who else is starring in Rivals? She had worked in several secretarial jobs before staring her long career in journalism in London. In the year 1957, she became a junior reporter for the Middlesex Independent. She was later married to her childhood sweetheart, Leo Cooper.

The equine narrative architecture of Rutshire is fascinating. The horses act as repositories for all the deep human emotions, especially for the shy or overlooked characters, who can only be themselves around a horse, and also for the stiff-upper-lipped, who can only truly adore a horse. Rupert will face temptation like never before in Mount! What made you choose to test him and Taggie, which is one of the most loved relationships in your novels? Speaking of authors most loved, the opening scene of Mount! features Rupert’s great-great-great-great-grandfather in a thrilling race across the country, which will remind many of Georgette Heyer’s wonderful romances. Was it fun writing historical fiction for a change? Horse racing is the other hero in Mount. What have been the highlights of learning about this glorious sport? Jilly Cooper is a famous erotic and romance English author who was born on 21st February 1937. She became a journalist where she wrote non-fictional articles before writing some of the romance novels. Cooper is well-known for her Rutshire Chronicles series which was first published in 1985.

Dowell, Ben (12 February 2009). "ITV delays single dramas in downturn". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 18 January 2013.In 1975, Cooper published her first work of romantic fiction, Emily. It was based on a short story she wrote for a teenage magazine, as were the subsequent romances, all titled with female names: Bella, Imogen, Prudence, Harriet and Octavia. In October 1993, seven years after Private Eye had pointed out the similarities, Cooper admitted that sections of Emily and Bella were plagiarised from The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy, but said that it was not deliberate. [7] Octavia [ edit ] The downtrodden abused wife and Janey's online dating friend was also absolutely pointless and reminded me of a very similar storyline in Apassionata Fortunately, Ferdie, his fat friend gave him a solution – getting paid for making husbands jealous. He causes havoc in Rutshire for quite some time but the real trouble starts when he comes face to face with Rannaldini. An excerpt was included in The Dirty Bits For Girls (ed. India Knight, Virago, 2008), a collection of favourite "dirty bits" from novels Knight read as a teenager. [12] Plot summary [ edit ] When I wrote Jump! – my last novel, about jump racing, which is known as the winter game – I fell so in love with the racing community that I decided to switch to flat racing which mostly takes place in the summer. The result is Mount! Although Rupert won the Grand National at the end of Jump! with a little mare called Mrs Wilkinson, his yard contains mostly flat horses, so it seemed logical to carry on with him as the hero. But that’s just an excuse. In reality, I adore Rupert. He’s so glamorous, outrageous, appallingly behaved and does exactly what he likes, and my readers seem to like him too. He also has adopted children, and adores dogs, as I do, and is wildly unpolitically correct, so I can use him to voice all my own prejudices! And if he is an implacable enemy, he is a loyal friend, and he’s devastated at the end of Jump! 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, CBE (born 21 February 1937), is an English author. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles. There is a problem with the Jilly Cooper as feminism argument though. It requires you to have not read this book. In Rivals. Alex Hassell plays the rakish and dangerously charismatic ex-Olympian and Tory MP. He’s had roles in The Boys, Silent Witness , The Miniaturist and was Metatron in His Dark Materials.In this book, Rupert turns 60. Don't worry ladies, he is still naughty and still sexy. Rupert is now breeding Thoroughbred race horses and it gives you a good picture of racing behind the scenes. Rupert finally learns some important life lessons and things come out very well for him in the end (I do not want to spoil it for any of my fellow Jilly Cooper fans so I will let you read it for yourself). One thing that I enjoyed was the relationship between Eddie, Rupert's father who has dementia, and Love Rat, Rupert's favorite stud.