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Wicked: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8

Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8

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Wicked: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8

By: Jilly Cooper
Narrated by: Sherry Baines
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Two schools - both in leafy Larkshire, but worlds apart. The incomparable Jilly Cooper turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education.

At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Janna is young, pretty, enthusiastic and vastly brave - and she will do anything to rescue her demoralised, run-down and cash-strapped school. Neither parents nor staff of either school are too keen on this radical move, although some can see the possible financial advantages. For the students, however, it offers great opportunities to get up to even more mayhem than usual.

"My reading of Jilly Cooper's Wicked! was not guiltily pleasurable - it was just pleasurable... a brilliantly refreshing read." POLLY VERNON, OBSERVER©2006 Jilly Cooper (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Contemporary Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Funny
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This book has it all. lust, greed, unfair politics, love, laughter and real life situations. please keep writing Jilly.

best book ever

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Great characters you can relate to with twists and turns to the plot right to the end

Story drew you in

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Excellent storyline as usual. I enjoy Sherry Baines narrations and although this book tackled some emotional and tough issues, it was done with sensitivity.

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Loving this book as much as any JC book but the narration is driving me mad. I’m halfway through and tempted to give up and read it myself. The narration is disjointed, halting and without expression. Each sentence is like a separate statement of fact presented in such a matter of fact manner as to lack any sense of coherence or continuity. There is no warmth or empathy. I feel as though this narrator really doesn’t like what she is reading and is determined to make it as boring, bland and monosyllabic as possible.
Consequently, the wonderful wit and humour of JC is lost and the droning, unfeeling delivery has caused me to lose concentration a number of times and have to rewind the story. I’ve tolerated this narrator before but this time it’s becoming a real chore to carry on listening to her.
Such a shame when JC is such a witty writer and has magnificent storylines.
Otherwise the book is as great as any other JC book.

Irritating narration

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Excellent book and narrated so well. Just downloaded another jilly Cooper book to listen too next x

Superb

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