Mount!: The fast-paced, riotous new adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author Jilly Cooper

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A centuries old grudge about a horse race between two ancestors was just ridiculous and unbelievable. I get that Cooper has her style and her brand - and, fuck me, I love that as much as the next die hard fangirl - but it's disappointing that her editor wasn't able to coax her into something a little more, for the want of a better word, woke. The competition to win the Leading Sire award lasted the entire book, and had lots of unexpected twists and turns.

We all learned so much from her: that the correct amount of perfume to wear is roughly half a bottle, so you trail it like a ship’s wake. I can't think of any trainer who could spend that much time away from a racing yard and have the successes that Rupert has. I am not usually a fan drama - this reads like a soapie - but this is so fast paced that I absolutely flew through the nearly 600 pages in only a few days.He is determined to beat his detested rival Cosmo which means abandoning his racing empire and his darling wife Taggie and chasing winners worldwide.

The wonders of the last book I read with Rupert in was that he fell for Taggie and became a reformed man.

The characters, too many to keep track of, and more than were needed, were sketchily drawn or caricatures. If, like me, you have never read Cooper before I am sure you will finish this one wanting more - I certainly did! Only for determined Jilly Cooper fans (I am one, and just managed to keep on until the end of the book).

Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that his adored stallion Love Rat be proclaimed 'Leading Sire'. At first it buckled against her tightness then, tearing her because of her dryness, forced itself inside. I would also recommend reading The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous just because it's so lovely, and gives you background to the Rannaldini stuff.How absolutely glorious to spend a few days in Rutshire with Rupert, Taggie and a host of familiar and unfamiliar people, rogues, lovers, horses and dogs. But the fact that there isn’t much of a plot doesn’t really matter, because that’s not what Jilly is about. It is a big book, starting with 16 pages of cast of characters/animals which really is overwhelming to begin with but quite helpful. And as increasingly sinister acts of sabotage strike at Penscombe, the game of musical loose boxes gathers apace . In Cooper’s latest blockbuster—again set in the horse-racing world—it’s certainly not difficult to tell what she thinks of any of the characters.