- Rutshire Chronicles, Horsemanship, Fiction, Show jumping
Set against the backdrop of the English Cotswolds countryside, Riders follows the fortunes of a group of fame and money hungry show jumping stars. Jake Lovell, the gypsy-born hero of the novel, is a brilliant horseman desperately seeking revenge for years of bullying at the hands of the glamorous, but brutish aristocrat, Rupert Campbell-Black.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, contemporary and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Jilly Cooper
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 924
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Transworld Publishers Limited, Arlington
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345333322
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“Because he had to get up unusually early on Saturday, Jake Lovell kept waking up throughout the night, wracked by terrifying dreams about being late.”
Jilly Cooper is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the six blockbuster novels Rutshire Chronicles.
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