By Jilly Cooper
Etta Bancroft -- candy, style, nonetheless appealing -- adores racing and harbours a overwhelm on considered one of its stars, the good-looking high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. whilst her bullying husband dies, Etta's egocentric, bold son and daughter drag her from her beautiful Dorset residence to reside in a hideous sleek bungalow within the Cotswold village of Willowwood. Etta's lifestyles alterations whilst, within the snow within the close by woods, she reveals a horribly mutilated filly, which she names Mrs Wilkinson and nurses again to health. The filly charms everybody within the village, then assessments show her to be a spectacularly well-bred racehorse. After a nail-biting courtroom case, Mrs Wilkinson is offered to Etta, hence making sure the lasting and vengeful enmity of her evil former coach and owner. A village syndicate is formed to placed the filly into education, inclusive of a riotous mixture of village characters, who trigger to the races in a minibus clanking with bottles. Ridden by means of Rupert's delectable god-daughter, Amber, Mrs Wilkinson captivates tremendous crowds as she progresses from point-to-point races to significant races and brings repute and fortune to the syndicate, till, ultimately, she is entered within the Grand nationwide. Can she be the 1st mare in thirty years, and Amber the 1st lady ever, to beat this strong race?In leap! you are going to meet wealthy capricious proprietors, obsessive running shoes and gallant solid lads and lasses; you'll get to understand the cruel, courageous jockeys; and you'll fall in love with the horses,and chiefly with Mrs Wilkinson herself -- hilarious, heroic and so gutsy she is going to gallop into your middle endlessly.
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She and Martin, who insisted on jogging hand in hand, resembled one of those bouncy couples on the label of a multi-vitamin container. Romy, like her husband, was intensely smug and self-regarding. ’ Five-year-old Drummond, the stairlift wrecker, was an over-indulged fiend. Poppy, a four-year-old applause junkie, would interrupt any adult conversation to demand an audience for a handstand or ‘Alla Turca’ thumped out on the piano. Both children lived on absurdly healthy food. Juice was a rarity, chocolate or a grain of salt had never passed their lips.
Feeling dreadful, knowing Sampson shouldn’t be abandoned in such a choleric mood, even with the distraction of a video of the Bahrain Grand Prix, Etta escaped to walk Bartlett. Scuttling through drifts of white daffodils and blue scillas, past un-cut-back flower beds, through an unpruned rose walk, she reached the fields. Here she got her daily horse fix, from a lovely bay mare and her plump skewbald Shetland companion. Although they flattened their ears and nipped each other as Etta gave them chopped carrot, the two horses were utterly devoted.
Alan often left her reading a book in the drawing room at night to find her still there finishing it in the morning. Carrie was not domesticated. ‘My wife can’t even boil a rabbit,’ Alan was fond of saying. But despite living on hamburgers, crisps and chocolate, Trixie looked surprisingly healthy. Occasionally the family would be rounded up for photographs for an upmarket newspaper, where Carrie would appear most unusually making marmalade or playing Scrabble with Alan and Trixie. ‘I’m a genius at juggling,’ Carrie would tell reporters.