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Jump!
- Narrated by: Samantha Bond
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Etta‘s selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset house to live in a hideous modern bungalow in the Cotswold village of Willowwood and to act as an unpaid Nanny to their children.
Her neighbour, powerful tycoon and ex-footballer Valent Edwards, has bought the big house next door. One night Etta finds a horribly mutilated filly in the snow in Valent’s woods and persuades the outraged Valent to take her in. Miraculously she pulls through and, by now called Mrs Wilkinson, captivates everyone in the village. DNA Tests reveal her to be a spectacularly well-bred racehorse.
After a nail-biting court case, Mrs Wilkinson is awarded to Etta, thus ensuring the lasting and vengeful enmity of her evil former trainer and owner. Etta forms a village syndicate to put the filly into training. The syndicate is a riotous mix of village characters, which set off to the races in a minibus clanking with bottles. From wild parties at Newbury and Ludlow, to an overnight of musical beds at Stratford, to the thrills and spills of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, one fling leads to another and another. Mrs Wilkinson become a star – nicknamed ‘the People’s Pony’, she is beloved by the crowds as she progresses from point-to-points to the major meetings and brings fame and fortune to the syndicate. After her terrible injuries she will only run for a female jockey, giving the delectable Amber Lloyd-Foxe, Rupert’s god-daughter, her big breakthrough in the man’s world of jump racing.
But Etta is horrified when Valent cooks up a plot with Rupert to enter Mrs Wilkinson for the Grand National. Can she be the first mare in thirty years, and Amber the first woman ever, to conquer this mighty race? In JUMP! you will meet rich capricious owners, obsessive trainers and gallant stable lads and lasses; you will get to know the tough, brave jockeys; and you will fall in love with the horses, and above all with Mrs Wilkinson herself - hilarious , heroic and so gutsy she will gallop into your heart forever.
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- Fiona Macaulay
- 30-10-21
Good listen.
Great story well read. not predictable. Enjoyed it very much.
Easy listen in a day.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Valarie
- 16-11-10
Excellent except....
It's great to see Jilly Cooper return once again to the Horse world, Rupert Campbell Black and all. Excentric characters, colourful backdrops of 'rural' England and animals with personalities greater than their human companions make for fantastic listening. Unfortunatly by the end of the book every, and I mean EVERY character be it human or animal gets on your nerves. Jilly Cooper allows a bit of hero to show in some of the characters but mostly she shows how completely horrible people can be to each other and the animals around them. Lastly the ending was more of a brick wall at 120 mph then the tapering off of her other books. There is no tying up of loose ends, the obnoxious getting their just desserts in an epilogue chapter. If you're in the mood to be annoyed at 99% of the characters through the book but enjoy the brilliance of her descriptive narrative then this is the book for you. An easy listen that sucks you in from the first paragraph and difficult to put down. Unfortunatly it is because of the ending and the absolute hatred I developed for every character, including the filly, that I rate Jilly Cooper's latest a 3.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Emma
- 26-10-10
Excellent
Nice to see the Rupert Campbell-Black theme continuing - you forget what a s**t he was in the first book Riders! But excellent once again - a riveting listen - my only complaint is that we need another book soon please Jilly!
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Jennifer
- 13-11-10
Terrible book
This is the worst book I have ever listened to or read. It is shocking. If you wish to hear some tedious unbelievable nonsense go ahead.
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