Jilly Cooper has a new book :)

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It will be published in September and it's called "Jump"

I cannot wait

Only read one Jilly Cooper but do love a good Penny Vincenzi, the thing is they are all very similar (which I like about them) but it means I get one from the library not realising I've already read it!

The latest one about the car crash was a bit weird, love the period ones though.

Might have to dip into Jilly. I do love a good epic book.

GetOrf were you on the Who Do Jilly Cooper Characters Look Like Thread a few months (?) ago?? I remember finding that ridiculously exciting.

(I have only read one PV book. It was about someone called Bard and was SHIT. She's not a patch on Jilly).

Oh I must have missed that Jilly thread

Try another Vicenzi Boudi - have never heard of one with bard in, must be one of her shite ones.

Do you mean Brad? Was he the American GI turned Hollywood B-lister?

Just ordered them!! Excited now! Bang goes another fortnight where I meant to change the world and do the ironing.

The Dilemma.

Endless, tedious, obvious wank.

oh Fellatio! (I never thought I'd write that.) I am SO envious.

And her older stories are just glorious
Lisa & Co
Imogen
Harriet
Octavia
Bella
(am trying to remember who was who)
Someone who married a scottish chap and went to live on an island-Harriet or Bella?
Someone who had sex at Oxford once with a cad, and got pregnant, kept the baby and had to go and work as a nanny-
Someone who was a virgin who went on holiday to the South of France with someone who wanted to ravish her-Imogen
They are like Georgette Heyer
Snuggling down on a sofa with a hot chocolate, a real fire and the wind howling outside and a suitable novel, heaven

Harriet is the nanny one
Emily was the one who married the scottish chap

I have read Jenny Pitmans novels too about a lady trainer, They are very good!!

Bella was the 'glamorous actress' one who got kidnapped and taken to ?Spain.
Octavia was on a boat of some kind, met rugged Welsh type, hated him, fell in love with him.

My favourite was Harriet.

Harriet was my favourite too! I loved Cory!!

I loved Jilly's novels from 1985 ish to 1995,
Rivals
Polo
Riders
Man who made husbands jealous.
I devoured them,as a Jilly character might say,or do
I loved the descriptions of the clothes,the houses,the sex....

I think I might have to track down all those old ones and re-read them too.

When you've finished the books Fellatio you'll know that a napkin needs to contain an ecstasy tab and a condom...and nobody bothers with the food

Ah yes, less keen on Bella and Octavia, as they were horrendous heroines
And then they 'learnt' their lessons

I fancied liked the welshman though

HUZZAH!

My school had Riders in the library which certainly made up for their shoddy attempts at Sex Ed.

Jump has been pre-ordered, I don't know how I'm going to contain myself - I haven't read a decent bonkbuster for years

reading this thread is making more even more yay. yay

very out of date but the official JC page!!

ANother JIlly COoper fan here. I agree with most of you - Riders, Rivals and Polo are brilliant, the next three OK, Pandora and Wicked just meh.
Mind you my favourite book of hers is probably The Common Years, which I have just been re-reading for about the billionth time (and would defy anyone not to weep at the end...)

Oh and this will make some of you - I have, somewhere, a letter from Jilly Cooper, which is sadly addressed to one of my pseudonyms rather than having my name on - I reviewed Polo when it came out in paperback and apparently it's standard practice for her to send reviewers a nice letter.

I loved the whole Rupert and Taggie love story and read each new book in trepidation that they've broken up.

Also loved Janey Lloyd-Foxe and Daisy for their gloriously sluttish ways.

Felt very sorry for Jilly when her DH had an affair and the OW was very mean about Jilly.

SGB - I am very envious of you having a letter from her.

Do I have to read Rivals Riders and Polo in any order? Are they related at all?

you can read them in any order but its ever so exciting when you find cross over bits from book to book.

Yeap in that order Fellatio as they have some of the same cast.

I so wish I was going to read them for the first time.

I had to re-purchase those books as read them so many times my originals fell to bits.

Riders
Rivals
Polo

(you lucky lucky thing)

tracey I think The Man Who and the bonkers popstar whose husband had affair (forgot her name) was written around that time and based on that experience.

SGB many years ago I wrote to her for a charity related thing, she sent a lovely handwritten note saying sorry she couldn't help and explaining why. I love her.