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Appassionata

Rutshire Chronicles, Book 5

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Appassionata

By: Jilly Cooper
Narrated by: Sherry Baines
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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.

©1996 Jilly Cooper (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction Funny
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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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A very well researched, narrated brilliantly story which I really enjoyed despite no being that interested in classical music.

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It's a wonderful book, but the Scottish accents are truly awful. I cringed hearing them, can you guess I am scottish. Nevertheless i enjoyed this audible translation because of my love of the story.

My favourite JC novel

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Loved it, despite thinking it would not be my subject couldn't stop listening. Highly recommended

Loved it

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loved it, a brilliant book, fabulously read on Audible. on to the next in the series

Addictive!

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As someone who waited for each of Jilly Coopers books to be published and loved every one of them, this was a fabulous treat!
Unadulterated and unabridged Jilly’s books are still a brilliant listen!!!

Fabulous

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