A light-hearted, fun and romantic romp from the much-loved classic authorThe trouble with the Mulholland family, Prudence decided, was that they were all in love with the wrong people. She'd been overjoyed when Pendle, her super-cool barrister boyfriend, invited her home for the weekend to meet h...
The light-hearted, hilarious and gorgeous novel from the much-loved classic author.As a librarian, Imogen read a lot of books, but none of them covered real life on the Riviera. Her holiday with tennis ace, Nicky, and the whole glamorous coterie of journalist, playboy, photographer, was a revelat...
Well, this is certainly no Pride and Prejudice! This is Cooper's debut book; a naughty romp through the elite world of show-jumping from local shows to the very top of the sport - the World Championships and the Olympics. Our main characters are Jake Lovell, a Gypsy underdog, and the first showin...
Well, this was certainly different from the Rutshire Chronicles I’m so fond of. At first I thought it was going to be like a Harlequin/Mills&Boon romance. It was all lovey dovey man woos woman, they go on dates, she’s all shy, so he proposes. I was surprised at the lack of sex scenes. There reall...
I giggled constantly through the whole thing... nodding my head the whole time, agreeing with Jilly's deliciously wicked insights. If you ever want to know about the English class system, this book is a must! OK... it might be a bit of a warped view and things may have changed a little since it ...
I enjoyed this. It’s quite old, first published in 1976. It’s refreshing to read about everyone smoking and drinking like crazy. It is really an old-fashioned romance. The sex which takes place is not described so erotica fans would be disappointed. It has lots of stereotypical elements but this ...
When Jilly Cooper, then a young Sunday Times journalist, was asked to write a book on marriage, she had been married to Leo Cooper for a mere seven years. Now they are celebrating their Golden Wedding, and although the institution of marriage has changed a great deal since this book was first wri...
I think this is one of the best Jilly Cooper books - a murder mystery surrounded by her usual mix of beautiful people, unfaithful lovers and gorgeous settings.Tristan de le Montiguy is in the process of filming the opera, Don Carlos. His father's great friend, Roberto Rannaldini, is directing the...
This is probably my favorite Jilly Cooper book, even if it isn't one of her most famous ones. It's just so funny and sweet and with a creeptastic undertone and I adore the protagonists.Lysander Hawkley is gorgeous and ridiculously nice. He's also not the sharpest tool in the drawer, can't read or...
This was one Jilly Cooper that I hadn't read before, so it was good to read it in order with the other Rutshire books. This one follows Abigail Rosen, a young Violinist who is let down by the man she loves - typical Cooper!! She tries to cut her wrists, but only ends up not being able to play her...
Oh dear.I usually like Jilly Cooper. You do have to take her with a pinch of salt - some of her books were written in the 60s and 70s, and in upper-class England (which is sort of a world unto itself, and I say that with the perspective of someone who has one foot in that world), so most of the t...
24 Janna woke to find herself on the settee, her breath rising whitely as a reproving sun peered in through the window to dissect her hangover without the aid of anaesthetic. Pearl’s mother’s green handkerchief dress was her only protection against the bitter cold. Whimpering and wailing, she pie...
99 Valent Edwards suspected he spent so much time abroad because he missed Pauline, most agonizingly when she wasn’t there when he returned home to England. As he flew back to Willowwood at the beginning of March, to sadness was added exhaustion. Over the past five years, among his myriad activit...
Outside, a force five gale, Hurricane Fiona, as Patrick had called her, was rampaging up the valley, rattling the windows, and howling down the chimneys. On the lawn a huge pink-and-white-striped marquee, heated by gas burners, wrestled with its moorings. 'Perhaps we could enter it for th...
Little Chef, riding pillion on the pony's plump quarters, bristled at rabbits and occasionally leapt down to chase them through leaves still starched by the morning's frost. A sinking sun, like a day-glo grapefruit, caught the shaggy silver pelts of the traveller's joy and gingered the last leave...
Radiant in her violet Chanel suit, huge amethysts at her ears and neck, soft brown curls framing her round-eyed rosy face, a mauve pashmina carefully concealing her large bottom, she paused in Commotion’s entrance a good twenty minutes – thus enabling even the Christian Science Monitor and the Os...
23 Quickly soon cheered up at Penscombe, taking chunks out of sweaters, upsetting all the other colts on the horse walker by cantering round, pushing it faster and faster, and whenever possible, creeping into the house to inveigle treats out of Taggie, who already adored him. ‘Quickly’s in the ki...