Mount!

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his other favourite horse, Safety Car, loves playing football with Rupert’s Jack Russells and will no doubt get signed up. The tenth instalment in the Rutshire Chronicles, dashing upper-class equestrian Rupert Campbell-Black once again takes centre stage, this time in the cut-throat world of flat racing.

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I would also recommend reading The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous just because it's so lovely, and gives you background to the Rannaldini stuff. 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. by the death of his life-long companion, Billy Lloyd-Foxe, who always had a stabilizing and humanizing effect on Rupert’s behaviour. One character was modelled on George Humphreys, a Welshman with whom Cooper had an affair in the late 1950s. 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.

Rupert is back - and thanks to some apparent age massaging (the dates don't seem to be canon any more, so just try to overlook this - Young Eddie's age is a particular issue) Rupert is still a flawlessly gorgeous romantic hero, virile and beautiful, in his late fifties. For regular readers of Cooper's novels I am sure that many characters played major roles in previous books in the series.

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I felt, however, that Jilly just didn't have the vim and vigour to pursue any social commentary to any degree in this story; I think that she was tired. I can't think of any trainer who could spend that much time away from a racing yard and have the successes that Rupert has. There is no believable reason, the person he sleeps with isn't likeable, there is no built up basis that makes the events understandable. What made you choose to test him and Taggie, which is one of the most loved relationships in your novels? Lastly, it's a bit annoying how we're supposed to still see Rupert as the sex god hottest man in the universe and how he doesn't age.Speaking of Rannaldini, his son, Cosmo, appears in this novel and he’s showing many of his father’s wicked characteristics. If you were disappointed by some of non-horse novels since Polo, you'll be delighted once again with Mount!