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While he's flying all over the world to enter his horses in the richest races of the entire globe, things at home are being overseen by his stable manager Gav (who is of course a genius with horses but tormented in love), the nurse for his increasingly senile father Eddie, Gala (of course she is also a genius with horses AND a tormented widow) and a host of other characters (most of whom are geniuses with horses and unhappy in love).
In the Camilla Long interview there was quite a bit about how she'd had to support her family pretty much always - well Leo I mean. Mount is the tenth in the series of books involving the ravishing Rupert Campbell-Black in some capacity. I also agree her nature writing is lovely and her older characters used to be flawed but they generally redeemed themselves in some way.
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In Mount sex is not a shameful act and a woman does not become “fallen” for having the temerity to enjoy herself. 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. So when I realised there was a newer book (okay, seven years after the fact I realised this), I had to get a copy. I so appreciate Cooper's writing what I believe is the end of the Rutshire Chronicles, which concluded on a sweetly reflective note. Gold medal winner at the Los Angeles Olympics for something involving riding horses, he now breeds them.I have loved Jilly Cooper's writing since reading Riders way back when and have read most of the Rutshire Chronicles, the ones I haven't read was because I hadn't seen they'd been released. Commenting on the lack of government investment in horse-racing jars with scenes of gigantic individual bets, the sums of prize money involved in racing, and private helicopters dotting down on birthday parties. There are the expected outrageous and enjoyable puns, but, why bother to plough through nearly 600 pages? It's also not very fairytale-ending unlike some of the others, though of course it ends reasonably happily for all the progatonists. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.
Glancing up into Jan's film-star face, marvellously strong features, lifted by a huge smile, dark red hair visible in the V of an open-neck check shirt, Gav suddenly felt raped. I've enjoyed all of the books that I've read but Riders, Rivals and this one are most definitely my favourites.Consider, for example, her cheerful disregard for the rules of exposition-dumping: “Did you know that Gala’s hero Charles II was one of the few kings that ever rode a winner at Newmarket, and that the Rowley Mile, the demanding undulating course over which both the 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas are run, was named after him, or rather after “old Rowley”, Charles II’s favourite hack who later became a prepotent sire like himself? It was only by chance watching the hotel programme of the launch of Mount that I knew about this one but I'm so glad I saw it!
She tended to hear one side’s view of situations such as the state of horse-racing or farm expropriations in Zimbabwe, and then cack-handingly parroted those views in this book. I've noticed over the course of the Rutshire Chronicles that successive books have veered more toward farce/fantasy and this one is no exception. The characters, too many to keep track of, and more than were needed, were sketchily drawn or caricatures. There's a scene which doesn't happen which I was surprised at (a particular race) but the book was so long by this point that I can see why Cooper chose another denouement.That's the second biggest thing I've had in my hand today" he told her as he washed down Love Rat's cock.
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