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The big news is that Rupert C-B is now – drumroll – in his late 50s. Don’t make a family tree (he’s theoretically a great-grandfather), obviously, but making him 59 keeps him within the realms of contemporary fanciability, when you consider that Mark Carney is 51, Obama 55, and Mark Rylance and Robert Peston both 56.

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a b Grice, Elizabeth (17 September 2010). "Jilly Cooper interview". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 26 April 2021.Despite this, is fair to describe Cooper as an accomplished writer, using the plot as a conveyor belt to roll in and out characters as necessary. I did not struggle to follow the story or comprehend motivations. Cooper also understands the key aspect of horse-racing: Write about the actual racing as little as possible. Characterisation is also, generally, a strong point for Cooper. I hate nearly all of them, but she gives me good reasons to hate them. Hawkley’s mid-life crisis began at 22 when his mother passed away. To add on to that, he was unemployed, alcohol followed him everywhere and debts seemed to constantly increase.

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Her columns were eventually collected into a book, Jolly Super – a title which still sums up her approach to life. But before that, in the late 60s, came How to Stay Married. “It was an incredibly vain thing to do really. I’d only been married seven years. But it was fun,” Cooper says. “Leo said it ought to be called How to Get Divorced – I was doing the Sunday Times column, had a new baby, and this book to write. It was too much, far too much. Anyway I did it. Now it’s terribly politically incorrect, the fact you had to cherish your husband, run home and cook him dinner, try and work 8.30-4.30 so he wouldn’t see you doing housework. But it was the time I was in. It seems awful.” I always liked those hunky, rather forceful menLysander Hawkley was blessed with a kind heart and stunning looks. He would always rescue a neglected wife or an abused horse. The act of rescuing neglected wives resulted in ecstatic sex which didn’t please their husbands. In 1975, she published her first romantic fiction novel, ‘Emily’ followed by ‘Bella’ and ‘Harriet’ in 1976. In 1985, she wrote ‘Riders’ which has proved to be the best selling among her novels. Currently, Jilly is 78 years old and an internationally recognized author. In this book, there is more romance, betrayal, parties, adultery and sex. It also squeezes in some of the women rights at the workplace which was headed by Cameron Cook. Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that Love Rat, his adored grey horse, be proclaimed champion stallion. 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.