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With one soccer player being described as 'miserable' because he has a wife who doesn't comform to media standards of beauty.
If it hadn't been the first book of this year's reading challenge, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it. I detect that she has strong views on the quality of the catering in football boardrooms, so perhaps they talked avidly of flaky pastry. Plenty of Cooper’s novels feature sexism which would outrage young readers today and make their older counterparts, like me, balk when considered through a 2023 prism. As Searston's new owner, he won't stand for anything less than victory in the Premier League, despite the odds being stacked against him. Still a great story though, and lovely to see her longstanding characters still delighting and living ever-so-fabulous lives !People just dont do that, theyre introduced by their nicknames OR their real names, not both and not at the frequency it happens in the book. There was a lot of football terminology, but it was written in such a way that it didn’t bog me down, and as I previously mentioned a football club opens up all kinds of wonderful plot lines.
As someone who grew up on Jilly Cooper books - Imogen, Octavia, Bella etc before the big sellers like Riders, I was so excited for this. I had a real soft spot for adorable little Dolfy as he found his feet in the world and had his talent recognised.As Searston’s new owner, he won’t stand for anything less than victory in the Premier League, despite the odds being stacked against him. While for me nothing will top the thrill of “polo” or “riders” Jilly is still cracking them out, updated for the 2020’s and they’re just jolly entertaining. in the Nielsen BookScan era, and her bestseller is 2007’s Wicked (Bantam Press), on 327,850 copies sold in paperback, according to Nielsen BookScan.