Mount!: The fast-paced, riotous new adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author Jilly Cooper

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Jilly Cooper is a famous erotic and romance English author who was born on 21st February 1937. She became a journalist where she wrote non-fictional articles before writing some of the romance novels. Cooper is well-known for her Rutshire Chronicles series which was first published in 1985. The heroine, Abigail Rosen aka Appassionata, was not only the most violinist and flamboyant in classical music but was also the sexiest. Unfortunately, she was also the loneliest. She was also very attracted to a sinfully glamorous horn player, Viking O’Neill. In 1975, Cooper published her first work of romantic fiction, Emily. It was based on a short story she wrote for a teenage magazine, as were the subsequent romances, all titled with female names: Bella, Imogen, Prudence, Harriet and Octavia. In October 1993, seven years after Private Eye had pointed out the similarities, Cooper admitted that sections of Emily and Bella were plagiarised from The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy, but said that it was not deliberate. [7] Octavia [ edit ]

Hanks, Robert, "First Lady of Rutshire", The Guardian (1959–2003); 18 March 1996; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821–2003) and The Observer (1791–2003) pg. A4 I’ve always adored horses and, in writing Mount!, I’ve been privileged to meet some of the finest in the world. The great Frankel, for example, is turning out to be as wonderful a sire as he was racehorse, and lives with a lovely tabby cat friend called George. I have also shaken hooves with gentle Gallileo in Ireland, who has been leading sire for the past seven years. Equally excitingly, I went to the World Cup in Dubai, which takes place in the desert under an indigo sky, where the top horses race for multi-million prizes. After some amazing fireworks, all the stars come down to cheer on the equine stars. It is so romantic. As stated earlier, this series was the most successful work of Jilly Cooper. It consists of the following nine books: I'm always left wondering whether racing people shag around this much. I suspect it's probably even more prolific than Cooper describes!In the final words of Jilly: "They always said the best way to get over someone was to get under someone else." In 1961, she married Leo Cooper, a publisher of military history books. [1] The couple had known each other since 1945 (when Jilly Sallitt was about eight), although they did not marry until she was 24 and he was 27. The couple was unable to have children naturally, so adopted two children. [23] They have five grandchildren. [24] The Coopers' marriage was greatly disrupted in 1990 when publisher Sarah Johnson revealed she and Leo had had an affair for several years, though Jilly and Leo eventually reunited. [25] [26] In the 1980s the couple left Putney, southwest London, for The Chantry, an old manor house in Gloucestershire. [1] 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. Leo Cooper was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2002. He died on 29 November 2013 at the age of 79. [1] In 2010, Cooper suffered a minor stroke. [27] Cooper has stated that she is a football fan, and supported Leeds United when she lived in Yorkshire. [28] She is also a supporter of the Conservative Party. [29] Awards and honours [ edit ]

There are innuendos and outright sexual comments that sprint across the line of acceptable conduct, circuit the planet to cross the line again, then draw penis emojis on that line. Using this book as a guide to British humour would leave one with the impression that a good joke is something crude mixed with something racist, barely advanced from Fawlty Towers. An incendiary speech is one that muses over how one might say the words “Far Canal.” Shaking breasts is just as good a form of greeting as shaking hands. As for the actual sex, it’s fine, I guess, though one situation made me wonder about Cooper’s knowledge of the mechanics of it. While there is relatively limited shaming, there is unnecessary reveling in excess, with anything involving into alcohol devolving into orgiastic celebrations or, in one case, an actual orgy. Cooper appears to strongly favour characters having children in their late teens or early twenties, leading to a sub-plot of Rupert at risk of being a great grandfather at 60. Racism and homophobia are also run riot through the book, with the homophobic f word used repeatedly and with another f word in front of it on one occasion. There's also some weird phrasing: Spoiler alert!*** One of the prevailing themes of the books is Rupert's love for Taggie, and his faithfulness to her. In this book he cheats on her, and it seems so random. There is no believable reason, the person he sleeps with isn't likeable, there is no built up basis that makes the events understandable. It's like Jilly just threw it in there for excitement. ***Spoiler Alert over***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. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Day, Elizabeth (24 April 2011). "Jilly Cooper: 'I'm a reasonable writer but I'm much too colloquial' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 May 2023. a b Grice, Elizabeth (17 September 2010). "Jilly Cooper interview". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 26 April 2021. Dowell, Ben (12 February 2009). "ITV delays single dramas in downturn". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 18 January 2013.