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

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All the usual components were present, but they didn't tie into a particularly cohesive novel, and it felt rather as though Cooper was going through the motions to deliver the novel. We are meant to be worried about the (negligible) risks he took, boo and hiss at the evilness of his enemies, and shout "hoorah for Rupert" when he wins at life.

I mentioned this on the other thread - I'm sure the ages are all messed up, Rupert has to be more than 57. Jan was just repulsive and suddenly turned into Mad Rozzy from Score with no warning in the space of ten minutes, then vanished.Everyone had aged - they don't have the same edge - and in the end, were considering how to shape their lives so they could enjoy more time with one another. What I do have a problem with is that we are supposed to consider this a happy ending, with a literal tribute to Rupert at the end. It is not at all fine to be greedy; to gossip about someone while pretending to pity them, or show off about – or even mention – your children. Score, p244: "Then he (Rannaldini) had rammed his cock into her, not minding if his aim was off-centre. There is also a cast of animals that runs to six pages, including “BLOOD RIVER: A South African First Season Sire in love with the vet”.

Jilly Cooper has a gift for creating memorable characters and she even manages to make the animals in her stories into characters.Jilly herself had hip surgery from which to recover, and two of her beloved elderly pets also passed away, leaving her with a single dog. In the final words of Jilly: "They always said the best way to get over someone was to get under someone else.

In Mount sex is not a shameful act and a woman does not become “fallen” for having the temerity to enjoy herself. How absolutely glorious to spend a few days in Rutshire with Rupert, Taggie and a host of familiar and unfamiliar people, rogues, lovers, horses and dogs. I've enjoyed all of the books that I've read but Riders, Rivals and this one are most definitely my favourites.

In previous books when he cheated on his first wife Helen I was routing for him because she was a truly awful woman. 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! Never been particularly in love with the horse racing side of it; unlike others I still really enjoyed the art/music/film/school etc books which have followed since Polo so the fact this was a new racing book was neither hear nor there for me. A centuries old grudge about a horse race between two ancestors was just ridiculous and unbelievable. 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.