Tackle!: Let the sabotage and scandals begin in the new instant Sunday Times bestseller

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And yes, the mind does rather boggle at the thought of 86-year-old Cooper having to balance the impatient demands of both. The author 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. Daughter Bianca persuades him to invest in a football club, Searston Rovers, and he becomes joint chair with his friend and fellow investor, former goalkeeper Valente Edwards. The cast of thousands is still a thing, and I found myself skipping the long, overly descriptive background details of each character.

will get involved with a struggling football team and, despite the odds, will lead them to some kind of sporting triumph. With the help of the club's ravishing and adorable secretary, Tember West, and his sassy Press Officer, Dora Belvedon, he becomes increasingly fond of his riotous mix of players, despite bawling them out whenever they face defeat. Jilly sweeps the reader up in the agony and the ecstasy of football, on and off the pitch, just as thrillingly as she has done in the equestrian world.With help from the club’s ravishing and adorable secretary, Tember West, Rupert sets out to mastermind Searston’s rise to the top, starting with taking charge of the players - much to the fury of Searston’s manager.

And yet Cooper, who is 86, has sold 11 million books in the UK alone (perhaps her most notable fan is Rishi Sunak).

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. starts immediately after the ending of her previous book Mount, after the death of his favourite horse and his wife, Taggie, facing chemotherapy for her cancer. Last year it was announced one of Jilly Cooper’s best-known novels, Rivals (Transworld), would be adapted for a Disney+ TV series, as reported by the Guardian.

He was an American polo player who liked to quote Robert Frost and existed in a book published in 1992.If you’d like to try Jilly Cooper, start with Riders and then Rivals, which now have added vintage 1980s charm and are truly rip-roaring reads. Cooper – sorry, I mean Campbell-Black – has loads of ideas for improving Searston, for its fans as well as its players. She reminds us that beneath the surface people, famous or otherwise, are often hiding an emotional or physical pain that is not always visible or understood.

e Jilly’s facebook page, goodreads and other reader social media pages to see if anyone knew when this book would be released, I was so excited when I first saw that Jilly was writing another book - it took years, Jilly’s acknowledgements at the end of the book confirm covid was to blame for a large portion of the delay in releasing. Jilly has been a long-time favourite author and I had been looking forward to reading her new one ever since I had first picked up on its 'genesis'. Typical shenanigans follow - the team and management and numerous hangers-on romping and bonking their way through several seasons worth of football, with a suitably outrageous and satisfying conclusion - all ends tied up. To use words Cooper would doubtless scorn at as PC abominations (she has said she misses wolf whistling and that modern men are “always crying” and “growing beards”), many of her heroes and plots are 'problematic' and possibly 'triggering' for today’s audiences.One imagines that the sensitivity readers, if indeed they existed, were in the end just as frustrated by Cooper as her supposedly sex-fixated editors – though if this was the case, I can’t sympathise at all.