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Rivals

Rutshire Chronicles, Book 2

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Rivals

By: Jilly Cooper
Narrated by: Georgia Tennant
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A brand-new recording narrated by Georgia Tennant, star of Doctor Who: Dreamland and Staged.
Who will take the Cotswold Crown?

Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport.

Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon.

As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.


'Jilly Cooper is the very best ... elegant, glamourous, wonderful fun' DAILY MAIL
'I couldn't put it down' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A combination of drama, sex, and good social comedy ... unputdownable' THE SUNDAY TIMES©1988 Jilly Cooper (P)2024 W F Howes Ltd Contemporary Women's Fiction Marriage
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Just spent a blissful week by the pool on holiday listening to Georgia Tennant’s amazing narration of Rivals. It’s a great book full of brilliant characters who are brought to life by Georgia’s fab accents and perfect timings. Thoroughly recommend to all. Having read all Jilly Coopers books years ago it was a real treat to rediscover this classic. Please can Georgia now narrate all all her other books? Particularly Riders and Polo - her Rupert Campbell-Black drawl was spot on! 👏👏

A wonderful holiday “read” with the best narrator ever!

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Georgia Tennant read this brilliantly! An old favourite brought to life by excellent narration. Thoroughly enjoyed it

Fabulous narration

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Watched it on TV had to find out how it ended. I wasn’t disappointed. It was a a great story and Georgia Tennant does a fantastic job as narrator.!

Really enjoyable romp

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Very well narrated piece of nostalgia by Georgia Tennant, only spoilt by mispronunciation of iconic brand names for those of us who remember (and loved) them at the time, which slightly breaks the spell and destroys the magic. Not the narrator's fault - I'm sure she's far too young to remember. But details the producers needed to attend to, especially given the profile of Rivals at the moment and the hours that have gone into the recording.

Fun, frothy and a burst of sunshine

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Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this. Made me laugh & cry. Love a happy ending, but you didn’t know until the very end!

Great story, kept me captivated

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