I WAS SO PISSED OFF ABOUT THAT! However, before he leaves he gets Tory a dishwasher which Tory cries about, bless her. Dino and Fen go back and forth-never quite making it as Fen is still heartbroken over Billy so Dino leaves and goes back to America. Dino gets on with everyone except Fen who is acting like a prize bitch who is taking everything for granted. As a consequence, Fen's riding takes a turn for the worse but you'll never guess who shows up to help? DINO! DINO! yesssssss! Dino moves in with the Lovell's as Jake returns back home and trains under Jake to be a better rider. Things seem to be picking up only JANEY RETURNS OH THE NERVE! Billy obviously runs back to her leaving Fen utterly heartbroken. They have a lovely, passionate fling together with the two of them becoming better riders on the circuit as well. GOD I HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH MORE I CAN TAKE! Fen goes to Rome in Jake's place where Rupert tries to sleep with her, NO SURPRISE THERE! but instead she sleeps with Billy! OH GOD! I'll just point out that Fen is 17, Billy is 29. I’ll finish up with a couple of Jilly’s non-fiction titles, but don’t worry, they’re still full of animals, Jilly’s great love, though with a more serious side.Rupert gets Billy back to his health after Jake makes a comeback and takes the show jumping by storm only to have a fall and break his leg in 5 different places and off riding for 6 months with the Olympics at stake. Then I’ll introduce you to two of my favourite Rutshire books, both starring Jilly’s most famous and enduring hero, Rupert Campbell-Black. I’ll begin with an amuse-bouche – Bella, one of Jilly’s earlier novels from the 1970s. If you’ve never read her, you’re missing out on what fabulous fun being very naughty can be. Emotional, dramatic, passionate, romantic and drowning in a tsunami of puns, Cooper’s books are escapism at its finest, and that’s still true today. I re-read the books continually as a teenager. Jilly not only promised that ugly ducklings often turn into swans, but that anyone’s life might eventually turn out to be fabulous. One of the reasons I’ve loved Jilly Cooper for so long is that even though a lot of it is very glitzy, her books are also populated by girls like me girls and women who were self-deprecating and weren’t sure if they’d ever be attractive, or if the chap they fancied would ever ask them out, never mind fall in love with them. Riders, the first and steamiest in the series, takes the lid off international showjumping, a sport where the brave horses are almost human, but the humans. Set in an idyllic world of show-jumping, huge country houses, and a variety of animals and posh people behaving very badly, Riders was wildly glamorous and published in a golden age of romance blockbusters.
I was fifteen when Riders, the first of the ‘Rutshire Chronicles’ – so-called because that’s where the main characters hail from – came out.
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