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Rivals
Rivals | Jilly Cooper
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Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon. As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.
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Bookbuyingaddict
Rivals | Jilly Cooper
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“What riches what an afternoon , the prospect of new friends excited her these days almost as much as new boyfriends had when she was young “ 🤣🤣yes it happens to us all , loved 🥰 the tv 📺 show and the book 📖 doesn‘t disappoint hooray for Jilly cooper if you want a funny sexy page turner to read over the holidays this is it ! 😀merry Christmas 🎄 you lovely 🥰 people 😘

CarolynM I enjoyed the TV version too (although I struggled with a dark haired Rupert😡) I‘m looking forward to seeing how they pull off the rest of the book in the next series, 3d
Bookbuyingaddict @CarolynM yes dark haired Rupert was a shock but he‘s great isn‘t he ? They all are and yep 👍 can‘t wait for season 2 loving the 80s sound track too on Spotify 🥰merry Christmas 🎄 😘x x. X x x 14h
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CarolynM
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1. Married
2. This is so hard, but I finally decided on Rupert Campbell-Black and Taggie O'Hara in tagged book closely followed by Chris and Amelia in Good Oil by Laura Buzo
3. Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe in Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series
4. Mara and Andrew in Angels and Men by Catherine Fox
5. "Sir" John Smythe/Tregarth from Elizabeth Peters' Vicky Bliss series

#TellMeTuesday

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EloisaJames
Rivals | Jilly Cooper
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I am a hopeless Jilly Cooper addict. This series is a brilliant evocation of punning, super-rich, (mostly) upper-class British people chasing each other around bedrooms and race tracks. This one is about the race to start a television franchise--very different than anything in the US, so that was fun too. But basically this is witty toffee, and perfect for long plane rides and days at the beach! #keepers #romantsy

julesG Some British #braincandy? Sounds good. 8y
CarolynM Rivals is my favourite Jilly Cooper 8y
EloisaJames @CarolynM I think Riders is mine, but Rivals is close. 8y
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Jodiewhitfield23
Rivals | Jilly Cooper
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#currentlyreading Enjoying this even better than the first one

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