If you met Rupert Campbell=Black - you WOULD punch him on the nose and call him a wanker

[MamaGrr]

...so why did I quiver over him as a teen, reading JC?

WHY?

I am 77 pages into Rivals. It's really cheesy stuff but I'm so enjoying the nostalgia that I can't stop reading it.

Sadly realise that I am far more like Monica Baddingham than the lovely O'Hara's!

Scruples - Billy (Wilhemina) Winthrop doesn't run a big shop, she is the fabulously wealthy owner of the most exclusive store in Beverley Hills, people!

And as to Princess Daisy, the older woman scene wasn't with Princes Daisy, perish the thought, she was destined for Patrick Shannon (another Patrick in my lust collection). My friends and I used to say if you were feeling rough you were having a Pat Butcher day and if you were feeling good you were having a Princess Daisy day, in honour of the description of her in Venice as "a glorious and impossibly fresh young beauty".

There is a hysterical review of Princess Daisy by Clive James here .

My copy of Riders is missing

come on, own up, who's nicked it?

I decided to rebuild my JC collection recently (all copies having been destroyed in a fire). Naturally I started with Rivals but then went for Polo, wish now I had gone for Riders instead.

Which means I don't have your copy! I used to have copies of Riders and Rivals signed by La Jilly herself, but they were lost in the fire, sigh.

This is VERY suspicious because my copy of Riders is also missing. Hmmmmm?????

I'm just off for a bath and another chapter or two of Rivals. So far ... Declan has interviewed Johnny Friedlander, Taggie has called the fire brigade and everyone's had lunch at the Baddingham's.

I've just read the New Year's Eve/Patrick's 21st birthday party bit - how great! And how great is Taggie for being able to cater shepherd's pie and garlic bread for 300 people in the O'Hara's kitchen??? JC is a bit short on the realism...

I'm at the party preparation bit too. Taggie has made 4 large dishes of kedgeree for breakfast - to feed hundreds. Imagine the size of those dishes. Amizing!

Another vote for Rivals, as one of her best. And in response to the OP, I wouldn't punch him on the nose, I'd be up the stairs & in that four poster bed before you could say "Amazin' Grice"!

Finished Rivals last night and am going to hunt for Polo to read again next, if only to read about Taggie and Rupert's wedding. Huge interview with Jilly Cooper in the Times today (can't find a link) which I read with interest.

God I was rather in love with RCB, I always fantsised that when I was grown up I would have a porsce 911 (beat up old and midnight blue) with a black lab in the back I had forgotton where that fantasy came from, you lot have reminded me I'll have to go dig out my copies, Riders, Rivals and Polo where toatl classics in teh nonPC chitck lit thing. Great books

I have about 8 pages of Rivals left to read. Lizzie has been wearing long socks with her bottom hanging out to excite Freddie, Valeries opening was not immortalised by Cotswold Round-Up, Maud has been exposed as the mole, Cameron has gorn orf, Beattie Johnson has 'ad her revenge and Venturer have won the franchise.

So all that's left is for Taggie to meet Rupert at the airport and subsequently arrange their wedding with the Bishop and for Patrick to move in with Cameron.

Wtf did I need to read this for? I know it all by heart !!!!!!!!!!!

PMSL

Must rush off and dust off JCs - thinks "how can persuade book group they really want to read them"?

Much more fun than worthy classics

almost at the end of Rivals - STILL can't find my copy of Riders [narrows eyes]

I wanted to call my labrador Badger (rofl at own sad-fecker-ness)but DH said no - had to use it in his pedigree name instead

I once read the opening pages of a Jilly Cooper novel. The text described rainbows as "limbo-dancing Josephs".