Mount!: The fast-paced, riotous new adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author Jilly Cooper
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Rupert Campbell-Black takes centre stage once more, this time in the cut-throat world of flat racing.
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.
Luckily, the fort at home is held by Rupert's assistant Gav, a genius with horses, fancied by every stable lass, but damaged by alcoholism and a vile wife. When Gala, a grieving but ravishing Zimbabwean widow moves to Penscombe as carer for Rupert's wayward father, it is not just Gav who is attracted to her: a returning Rupert finds himself dangerously tempted.
Gala adores horses, and when she switches to working in the yard, her carer's job is taken by a devastatingly handsome South African man who claims to be gay but seems far keener on caring for the angelic Taggie. And as increasingly sinister acts of sabotage strike at Penscombe, the game of musical loose boxes gathers apace . . .
We asked Jilly Cooper(Author) a question about the novel Mount!
Hi Jilly! Thanks for speaking to us. Rupert has taken a bit of a backseat in recent novels, but is firmly back on the saddle with this one. What made you decide it was his turn to be our hero again?
When I wrote Jump! my last novel, about jump racing, which is known as the winter game ? I fell so in love with the racing community that I decided to switch to flat racing which mostly takes place in the summer. The result is Mount! Although Rupert won the Grand National at the end of Jump! with a little mare called Mrs Wilkinson, his yard contains mostly flat horses, so it seemed logical to carry on with him as the hero. But that's just an excuse. In reality, I adore Rupert. He's so glamorous, outrageous, appallingly behaved and does exactly what he likes, and my readers seem to like him too. He also has adopted children, and adores dogs, as I do, and is wildly unpolitically correct, so I can use him to voice all my own prejudices! And if he is an implacable enemy, he is a loyal friend, and he's devastated at the end of Jump! by the death of his life-long companion, Billy Lloyd-Foxe, who always had a stabilizing and humanizing effect on Rupert's behaviour.
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- Contributor: Jilly Cooper
- Imprint: Corgi Books
- ISBN13: 9780552170284
- Number of Pages: 736
- Packaged Dimensions: 127x198x32mm
- Packaged Weight: 492
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Release Date: 2017-02-23
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling books, she lives in Gloucestershire. She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. She was also appointed DBE in 2024 for services to literature and charity.
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