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

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The filly charms everyone in the village, and whentests reveal her to be a spectacularly well-bred racehorse a village syndicate is formed to put the filly into training.

Etta isn't that sad to lose her bullying husband to cancer, but is heartbroken when her children turf her out of the family home and install her in a impersonal, small bungalow so they can use her as free babysitting.

Only through sheer determination and constant complaining did I finish this diabolical excuse for a book! Cooper's immersion in the world of jump racing is complete and very believable and I absolutely trust that she has the details of the sport accurately depicted. Sometimes we need a little fictional emotional rollercoaster so we can stay relatively normal in our real day to day lives.

To read one of Cooper’s books is to escape into an alternative universe in which all is right with the world. Etta's life changes when, in the snow in nearby woods, she finds a horribly mutilated filly, which she names Mrs Wilkinson and nurses back to health. I've given this review a bit of a harsh rating, but I just cannot get over how very disappointed I was from this latest offering to come out of the Cooper stable. Plenty of old favourites, like Rupert Campbell-Black, along with a whole new village of characters to fall in love with. 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.Jilly’s descriptions of the glorious Cotswold countryside are some of the most lyrical ever written and her comedies of manners rival Nancy Mitford, if not Jane Austen.