Jump!: Another joyful and dramatic romp from Jilly Cooper, the Sunday Times bestseller

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I loved Polo and Rider and even enjoyed Wicked but what was this utter horse-crap doing on any any book shelf?

The only thing on earth that made me want to read this book was that it was about horse racing, I'm a racing fanatic so the story of finding an abused horse near to death and saving it and turning it into a champion attracted me.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. The heroine is also a classic type, though rather older than the wide-eyed teenagers Cooper usually favours. I don’t think I could read two Rutshire books back to back, because I get so seriously emotionally involved. When her bullying husband dies, Etta’s selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset home to live in a hideous modern bungalow in the Cotswold village of Willowwood. I did read it all, but I'm not sure if I will read it again, although it will stay on the shelf with it's prequels for now.

Etta bankroft, what an awful lead character, I was honestly hoping she'd end up head butted to death by that idiot goat Chisolm (his own column? There were times that just hiding in the bedroom closet or not answering the phone would have seemed a more effective mode of handling things than she applied.Mrs Wilkinson and Etta develop an unshakable bond, as the filly becomes a renowned racehorse and leads Etta into the world of syndicates, racing and controversy. With both knowledge and passion, Jilly included subplots involving trainers, owners (including syndicates), jockeys and stable lads and lasses.