Rivals Hardcover

Jilly Cooper

ISBN 10: 0593013689 / ISBN 13: 9780593013687

Published by Bantam Pr Ltd, 1989

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0593013689I3N01

From the Back Cover: Fresh from the best-selling triumph of RIDERS and its unforgettable portrayal of the show-jumping circuit, Jilly Cooper now turns her effervescent talents to the cut-throat world of television.

Declan O'Hara, a media-star of great glamour and integrity, is poached from the BBC by Cotswold Television and moves to Gloucestershire with his radiant feckless wife, his handsome son and two beautiful teenage daughters. Living rather too close across the valley, divorced and dissolute as ever, is Rupert Campbell-Black. Now an MP whose constituency lies within the Cotswold Television area, Rupert is also Tory Minister for Sport.

Declan has only been at Cotswold a few days when he realizes how impossibly corrupt the managing director, Lord Bullingham, is and that he has merely been brought in to help Cotswold retain the franchise when it comes up for renewal next year.

Not content with just poaching Declan, the machiavellian peer has also lured Cameron Cook, a ravishing but overbearing woman executive from the American network NBS, to produce Declan's programme. Cameron and Declan detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy and dissent into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon.

As the plot twists and turns, and a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, the author's ingenuity and mastery of social innuendo is at full throttle. Reputations ripen and decline, true loves blossom and burn, 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Rivals Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Pr Ltd
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket