Jump!: Another joyful and dramatic romp from Jilly Cooper, the Sunday Times bestseller

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With both knowledge and passion, Jilly included subplots involving trainers, owners (including syndicates), jockeys and stable lads and lasses. Crammed into every page too, like a traffic report where everyone is sitting what everyone is saying. I absolutely loved this book and it's increased my desire to go back to the days of Riders and Rivals and find out how it all began. All of them have simply brilliant characters (in fact, it is often easier to tell apart the animals than the humans) and it was the sad moments involving the horses that had me close to tears! It's one heck of a book standing at over 700 pages so to be able to keep me immersed fairly consistently until the last page is no mean feat.

Thank you for giving me another wonderful ready, I can’t wait for your next book about Rupert turning 60.It's a sprawling tale with a huge ensemble cast, including several very familiar to fans (yes, Rupert Campbell-Black makes an appearance) and a raft of new faces, and a vast array of animals with their own distinctive character. I found the characters to be believable, there were many who could have turned into stereotyped clichés but Cooper kept them on the right side of convincing. The plot of this one is simple, when Etta Bancroft’s domineering husband dies her children move her out of beloved home into a small cottage on their property and turn her into a babysitter and housekeeper.

I’m sure if Cooper had focused more on how the people in the syndicate interact with each other and less with the horse I would have enjoyed it more. When her bullying husband dies, Etta ‘s selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset house to live in a hideous modern bungalowin the Cotswold village of Willowwood. Jump' will take a more careful reader than I'll ever be to keep them straight enough to reap the full benefit of their assorted escapades and hijinks. But Etta is horrified when Valent cooks up a plot with Rupert to enter Mrs Wilkinson for the Grand National.As for me I’m not giving up on Cooper, I’ll read the next novel in the series, I’m confident it will be as much fun as the other novels in the series and well worth the read.

The heroine is also a classic type, though rather older than the wide-eyed teenagers Cooper usually favours.contains all the key ingredients; a large slug of gossip, a hit of glitz, a shot of scandal and lashings of fun. One suspects that she genuinely loves her jump jockeys and eco-bores, her grating majors and careless rogues (one of whom, again helpfully, actually goes by the name of Rogue).