Appassionata: A masterpiece of sex and drama from the Sunday Times bestseller Jilly Cooper

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For the television movie, see The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (film). First edition (publ. Bantam Books) Did I enjoy it? Yes. Is it a good book? - I'd have to say no but it's very typical of Jilly Cooper and you know what you are going to get. All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate. MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling books, she lives in Gloucestershire.

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Nonetheless, all the nine chronological books in the series have all adopted a unique plot and theme, making each a standalone novel. Since the launch of the Rutshire Chronicles in 1986, the series has in many ways redefined English romance. From the non-traditional lifestyles of British families, where the upper-class status only perpetuates deception, to the polo crowds where love stories are punctuated by promiscuity, the Rutshire Chronicles provides a third-person perspective of modern-day English romance. The series is an integration of adultery scenes, the lure of scandalous love stories, the fate of illegitimate sons, and realities of fatal love within the setting of a fictional English county. Sexually, Jilly Cooper's world is an idyll. No one is frigid, no one has difficulties in bed. Mutuality of orgasm is a given. There are no venereal diseases, and rarely any talk of contraception. Pregnancies, which seldom happen, are always OK when they do, if only because that introduces a potential new orgiaste into the scenario in 16 years' time. Alas, the aforementioned characters are, without exception, without redemption. The orchestra's musical habits are frightful, its personal ones frightening. Abby is a self-absorbed psychotic. Marcus is a wimp. Flora is - well, she's a viola player, darling, 'nuff said, and besides she has hideous taste in men, rejecting the blond, bedenimed Viking for a series of pudgy North of England industrialists. As for Viking himself, when he isn't carving out an international recording career, giving free master classes to primary children or playing golden oldies at the old folks' home, he's bonking every-, thing in sight with an insouciance which is most unbecoming in a post-AIDS society. It was directed by Robert Knights and executive produced by Sarah Lawson, under her company Lawson Productions, and Neil Zeiger for Blue Heaven Productions. The producer was Irving Teitelbaum. [1] In 1997, a TV miniseries version was produced for ITV by Anglia Television, starring Stephen Billington as Lysander Hawkley, Hugh Bonneville as Ferdinand Fitzgerald , and Rhona Mitra as Flora Seymour. Other cast members included Gilly Coman as the Marigold, Kim Criswell as Georgie, and Kate Byers as Kitty Rannaldini.Sex, money, power: it sounds a simple enough recipe. It is. And it's one which Cooper has deployed with almost no variation over the course of seven bestselling, bonkbusting novels. Fair enough - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. About the only thing that has changed between books, indeed, is the milieu. For each new novel, Cooper has selected a differently glamorous world in which her stories can unfurl. Thus Riders was set in showjumping, Rivals in TV, Appassionata and Score! in classical music, and so on. It goes something like this: driven by desire, The Archetypal Shit (who has 'manganese-blue eyes') couples with The Beautiful Young Thing (who has 'eyes like huge green traffic lights'). Mad with jealousy, The Trustafarian (who has 'huge hazel eyes, like amber traffic lights') impales herself on The Superstud (who has 'Cambridge-blue eyes'). Keen to make her way in the world, the Tempting Temp (who has 'eyes the colour of love-in-a-mist') pleasures the Slightly Overweight Millionaire (who has 'bright blue eyes'). Et cetera, et cetera.

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In conclusion, it is also notable that of Jilly Cooper’s fiction romance novels, the Rutshire Chronicles has recorded the highest number of adaptations, for a series in her name. Directors Gabrielle Beaumont adapted the first Rutshire Chronicles novel, Riders, for television in 1993. The adaptation was produced by Anglia Television and broadcasted by the ITV. The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1993) is a novel written by Jilly Cooper as part of the Rutshire Chronicles, about a womanizer who gets embroiled in a scheme to punish wayward husbands.