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SOON TO BE A SHOW ON HULU STARRING DAVID TENNANT AND AIDAN TURNER One of the glorious Rutshire Chronicles Who will take the Cotswold Crown? Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realize that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's program. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon. As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tackle! and Riders, soon to be a series on Disney +'A combination of drama, sex, and good social comedy ... unputdownable' The Sunday Times'Jilly Cooper is the very best ... elegant, glamourous, wonderful fun' Daily Mail'I couldn't put it down' Sunday Express_______________________Welcome to the 80s, the decade of decadence… ‘Joyful and mischievous’ Jojo Moyes ‘Fun, sexy and unputdownable – a classic’ ­Marian KeyesThe glamorous, cutthroat world of 1980s British television is all about power, a time when the affluent elite exist in a bubble of immense wealth and influence, and will use any means to get what they want. Lord Baddingham is desperate to retain his Corinium TV franchise, and to do so he’s hired Declan O’Hara, an Irish talk show mega-star. Baddingham has also enticed on board Cameron Cook, a gorgeous and brash executive, to produce Declan’s program. But Declan and Cameron detest each other, soon provoking a storm of controversy.Enter into the fray everyone’s favourite hate-to-love-him bad-boy, Rupert Campbell-Black. As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and everyone is competing—in bed and in the boardroom—to come out on top.‘Flawlessly entertaining’ Helen Fielding‘Pure, unadulterated joy’ ­Sophie Kinsella_______________________Praise for the Rutshire Chronicles series:‘Fun, sexy and unputdownable – a classic’ - Marian Keyes, bestselling author of Grown Ups ‘Jilly Cooper’s writing is hilarious, witty, wise, astute, (and] flawlessly entertaining’ - Helen Fielding, bestselling author of Bridget Jones’ Diary‘Joyful and mischievous. I know of no woman my age who won't admit that Rupert Campbell-Black nearly ruined them for other men for life . . .’ - Jojo Moyes, bestselling author of Me Before You‘Jilly Cooper is the funniest and the sharpest writer there is.’ - Jenny Colgan, bestselling author of Sunrise by the SeaJilly Cooper, Sunday Times bestseller, May 2024 Autorid: Jilly Cooper