Rivals, Jilly Cooper
Rivals, Jilly Cooper
List: $44.99 | Sale: $31.50
Club: $22.49

Rivals

Author: Jilly Cooper

Narrator: Georgia Tennant

Unabridged: 24 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Forever

Published: 10/15/2024


Synopsis

Soon to be an original streaming series on Hulu!
"Fun, sexy and unputdownable--a classic."  --Marian Keyes
"Flawlessly entertaining."  --Helen Fielding
"Joyful and mischievous." --Jojo Moyes

Fleabag meets Succession as rival TV execs bid for the local franchise in this exuberant romp filled with drama, steam, and comedy.  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.

Reviews

Rating unchanged on reread: 5 stars Undoubtedly THIS IS GARBAGE, if you like, from the (in)glorious 80s. Think Dynasty, Think Horses, Think Dogs Think sexism, chauvinism, adultery, parties, politics, intrigue, promiscuity .... and whatnot Think characters you love to hate and hate to love, and yet, e......more

Jilly, my affection for you has lead me to keep reading, way, way past the point when you became unreadable. (There's debate about when this occurred. For me the tipping point was Pandora. For some it was SCORE! The exclamation mark was too much to bear.) For me, Rivals is the ultimate Jilly, though......more

Goodreads review by Tanja

Rating 3* out of 5. One star deduction for excessive length. The previous book in the series "Riders" was even longer - over 900 pages - but I did not want it to end. "Rivals" wasn't as interesting. The format probably contributed as well, reading books over 500 pages on kindle is quite dreary in it......more

Goodreads review by Claire

Following on a few years from where Riders leaves off, Rivals throws us back into the saddle (see what I did there) in Rutshire, where Rupert Campbell-Black is now Tory (of course) Minister for Sport. Freshly divorced from Helen, he is literally shagging anything that comes within a ten-metre radius......more