Mount!: The fast-paced, riotous new adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author Jilly Cooper

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Characters of foreign descent as thrown in willy nilly as if JC only put them there for political correctness. I know Jilly's getting older but someone should have pointed things out to her so she could have corrected it.

If you were disappointed by some of non-horse novels since Polo, you'll be delighted once again with Mount! Both men and women are accused of being fat when barely over 10 stone and while I understand this is to with the weight needed for jockeys I think there could have been a better way to describe it than fat. Jilly is about bringing joy into your life: daft, silly, boozy joy, and if you like joy, you’ll like this. As an animal lover I really appreciated that Cooper spends almost as much time developing the horses and dogs as she does the people.She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. The human characters are very realistic with all their flaws and strengths, and the animals in the story are almost human in their personalities.

The wonders of the last book I read with Rupert in was that he fell for Taggie and became a reformed man. Glancing up into Jan's film-star face, marvellously strong features, lifted by a huge smile, dark red hair visible in the V of an open-neck check shirt, Gav suddenly felt raped. I like learning more about the world of horse racing and the sort of ‘how the other half live’ insight which we as readers get in these books. And predictably, subterfuge puts Rupert's horses and staff in harm's way - with any number of possible suspects. And I was not alone: I don’t know a novelist of my generation and genre who wasn’t influenced by her.In Jilly Cooper’s latest, raciest novel, Rupert Campbell-Black takes centre stage in the cut-throat world of flat racing. I've been reading Jilly Cooper's novels for pretty much my whole adult life and some of the main characters are almost as familiar as family. It is a big book, starting with 16 pages of cast of characters/animals which really is overwhelming to begin with but quite helpful. Yet at the end, everything is tied up in a nice little bow and we marvel at what a fantastic man Rupert is.

There is also a cast of animals that runs to six pages, including “BLOOD RIVER: A South African First Season Sire in love with the vet”. Even those fans of subtlety might be disappointed only by how much they enjoy the whole mad confection. Perhaps she should have walked out, which would have devastated Rupert and he would have dropped everything to get her back. The Blacks’ is a frequently used phrase and then softened by highlighting the fact that Rupert and Taggie adopted black children. And Rupert's age - I think he's really about 65-67 as he was 18ish when Perdita was conceived and that was late 60s?And are we now meant to assume that Gala and Gav stay living 100 m away from Taggie and Rupert and it is all fine. I was looking forward to seeing what Rupert had been up to after a few years away but I must say this was definitely not Jilly Cooper's best book. For regular readers of Cooper's novels I am sure that many characters played major roles in previous books in the series. No, Gala is not a very sympathetic character and the complete about turn of love life at the end of the book in the space of a page was a bit of a shocker and deeply unlikely. Luckily, the fort at home is held by Rupert's assistant Gav, a genius with horses, fancied by every stable lass, but damaged by alcoholism and a vile wife.