Their braying mothers sluice themselves in Chanel No 5, start suckling the gin bottle at breakfast, and dream wistfully of their lissom youths.

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It is certain that Cooper attained her mastery as a romance fiction author with the Rutshire Chronicles.David Tennant is best known for being the tenth incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who but also for dramas such as Good Omens, Inside Man , Des , Broadchurch and Around the World in 80 Days. Rivals by Jilly Cooper was a must read 'bonkbusting' novel of the 1980s, as it followed some eccentric 'country set' characters in the fictional UK county of Rutshire. This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one.

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The superbrat Sienna, for example - all piercings, pouty lips and ripped denim - manages to get Turner Prize-shortlisted for her work 'Tampax Tower', an edifice 'built of used tampons sent her by women of substance'.

The book was first published in hardback in 1993 and then in paperback in April 1994, and was later adapted into a television miniseries. Well, there's certainly plenty of it, and all unabashedly up-front - apart from a single, strangely coy gay love scene between Marcus and, guess what, a Russian ballet dancer. Then there's the 'extremely volatile' Czech artist, Galena Borochova, who likes to drench her pubic hair with cobalt oil paint before writhing, crotch down, on a blank canvas, until a suitable state of artistic and carnal climax has been reached. The eight-part saga is based heavily on Jilly Cooper's bestselling book Rival s follows the tense rivalry between two ambitious and charismatic men, Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and Lord Tony Baddingham, and is packed with sex, romantic entanglements and shocking antics. Directors Gabrielle Beaumont adapted the first Rutshire Chronicles novel, Riders, for television in 1993.

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And it is that thing as well, which happens sometimes in shows — and I see it happening [here], though none of us have kind of admitted to it, but it’s definitely there — where there’s a slight methody thing happening. One thing to know about the Cooper oeuvre is that it's possible to read her novels together as a grand roman fleuve: a tremendous orgy of some 5,000 pages' durance. The series is now on its ninth chronological book, progressively featuring thrilling, exciting and highly addictive tales of romance.The diabolic, scheming conductor Robert Rannaldini is suffering from bad publicity after his attempt to influence the Appleton Piano Competition, and badly needs a major success. In the Rider, Cooper initiated what would eventually become the hallmark of the Rutshire Chronicles, where realistic narratives replaced what was previously only mildly implied. But after we wrap the tache is definitely going to go and I’m going to take a break – I’d love a big holiday!