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Appassionata
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 5
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
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Tackle!
- By: Jilly Cooper OBE
- Narrated by: Katherine Parkinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and handsomest man in the world, is in the darkest of places. His adored wife, Taggie, is about to undergo chemotherapy, his beloved horse Love Rat has died, and now his daughter Bianca wants him to buy a languishing local football club - a sport Rupert knows nothing about - so she can return to Rutshire with her football star husband. Rupert's first impressions of Searston Rovers are distinctly unfavourable. But swayed by Bianca and Taggie, soon Rupert has signed the deal.
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Good narration
- By Anonymous User on 28-02-2024
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Harriet
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Louise Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford's leading playboy, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a somewhat eccentric scriptwriter. A whole host of visitors began to arrive to disrupt Harriet's peaceful routine: first Cory's estranged wife, Noel, then his brother, Kit, and finally, of all people, Simon....
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Octavia
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Anna Parker-Naples
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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As soon as Octavia caught a glimpse of Jeremy, she knew she just had to have him. It didn't matter that he'd just got engaged to an old school friend of hers, Gussie. An invitation to join Gussie and Jeremy for a cosy weekend on a canal barge came like a gift from the gods. However, the other part of the foursome was tycoon Gareth Llewellyn, and he certainly managed to thwart her plans....
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Emily
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Rebecca Courtney
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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If Emily hadn't gone to Annie Richmond's party, she would never have met the impossibly irresistible Rory Balniel - never have married him and been carried off to the wild Scottish island of Irasa to live in his ancestral home. She'd never have met the wild and mysterious Marina, a wraith from Rory's past, nor her brother, the disagreeable Finn Maclean. And she would never have been caught stealing roses in a see-through nightie....
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Appalling, mandatory stars, not one deserved
- By Kaye Davies on 06-02-2018
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Prudence
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Louise Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A lighthearted, fun and romantic romp from the much-loved classic author Jilly Cooper. Prudence had been overjoyed when Pendle invited her home for the weekend to meet his family. Then she met his brother, Jack - handsome, married and only too ready to take over with Pru if Pendle didn't get a move on. It was only when she noticed the way Pendle looked at Jack's wife, Maggie, that it began to dawn on Pru that this weekend looked like a nonstop game of changing partners....
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Sushi for Beginners
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Lisa Edwards, top London magazine editor, has been fantasizing about promotion to New York. Instead, she's asked to launch a new women's magazine in Dublin. She thinks nothing could be worse - until she meets her new staff. They're friendly, helpful, and enthusiastic - in other words, they wouldn't last two minutes in London!
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Fantastic characters great story
- By Eosaphrodite on 18-06-2017
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Tackle!
- By: Jilly Cooper OBE
- Narrated by: Katherine Parkinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and handsomest man in the world, is in the darkest of places. His adored wife, Taggie, is about to undergo chemotherapy, his beloved horse Love Rat has died, and now his daughter Bianca wants him to buy a languishing local football club - a sport Rupert knows nothing about - so she can return to Rutshire with her football star husband. Rupert's first impressions of Searston Rovers are distinctly unfavourable. But swayed by Bianca and Taggie, soon Rupert has signed the deal.
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Good narration
- By Anonymous User on 28-02-2024
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Harriet
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Louise Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford's leading playboy, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a somewhat eccentric scriptwriter. A whole host of visitors began to arrive to disrupt Harriet's peaceful routine: first Cory's estranged wife, Noel, then his brother, Kit, and finally, of all people, Simon....
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Octavia
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Anna Parker-Naples
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
As soon as Octavia caught a glimpse of Jeremy, she knew she just had to have him. It didn't matter that he'd just got engaged to an old school friend of hers, Gussie. An invitation to join Gussie and Jeremy for a cosy weekend on a canal barge came like a gift from the gods. However, the other part of the foursome was tycoon Gareth Llewellyn, and he certainly managed to thwart her plans....
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Emily
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Rebecca Courtney
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
If Emily hadn't gone to Annie Richmond's party, she would never have met the impossibly irresistible Rory Balniel - never have married him and been carried off to the wild Scottish island of Irasa to live in his ancestral home. She'd never have met the wild and mysterious Marina, a wraith from Rory's past, nor her brother, the disagreeable Finn Maclean. And she would never have been caught stealing roses in a see-through nightie....
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Appalling, mandatory stars, not one deserved
- By Kaye Davies on 06-02-2018
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Prudence
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Louise Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A lighthearted, fun and romantic romp from the much-loved classic author Jilly Cooper. Prudence had been overjoyed when Pendle invited her home for the weekend to meet his family. Then she met his brother, Jack - handsome, married and only too ready to take over with Pru if Pendle didn't get a move on. It was only when she noticed the way Pendle looked at Jack's wife, Maggie, that it began to dawn on Pru that this weekend looked like a nonstop game of changing partners....
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Sushi for Beginners
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Lisa Edwards, top London magazine editor, has been fantasizing about promotion to New York. Instead, she's asked to launch a new women's magazine in Dublin. She thinks nothing could be worse - until she meets her new staff. They're friendly, helpful, and enthusiastic - in other words, they wouldn't last two minutes in London!
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Fantastic characters great story
- By Eosaphrodite on 18-06-2017
Publisher's Summary
Effervescent as champagne, Jilly Cooper's novel brings back old favourites like Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black.
Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world.
When a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the male-dominated heights of the conductor's rostrum. Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic, not realising the RSO is composed of the wildest bunch of musicians ever to blow a horn or caress a fiddle.
Abby finds it increasingly difficult to control her undisciplined rabble and pretend she is not madly attracted to the fatally glamorous horn player Viking O'Neill. And then Rannaldini, arch fiend and international maestro, rolls up with Machiavellian plans of his own.
Critic Reviews
"Delicious: light as a souffle and with divine flashes of wit. I could not put the...thing down." (Sunday Express)
"Appassionata - the divine Jilly Cooper's latest and greatest novel." (The Sunday Times)
"Triumphant...a boisterous tale of sex and Chopin amongst Rutshire folk." (Tatler)
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- Gillian Shippen
- 02-06-2022
I can't get enough of the Rutshire Chronicles
It is very easy to escape into the lives of the characters in the Rutshire Chronicles and Apassionata is no different. You get to laugh, cry and love with them as they work through their world
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- Anonymous User
- 27-01-2019
love jilly cooper, enjoyable easy reading. highly.
loved it, highly recommend the rutshire Chronicles series. great series. is she writing more, hope so.
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