Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15952 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

The Sunday Times
'A combination of drama, sex and good social comedy... unputdownable'

Daily Mail
‘Jilly Cooper is the very best… elegant, glamorous, wonderful fun’

Books
'It is satisfyingly long, addictive, bitchy, endearing and full of sex and hilarious one-liners'

Customer Reviews

You've got to hand it to Jilly
I think Jilly is better than Jackie. The stories race along and you really don't know how it's going to turn out. She draws fantastic characters and this one, set in 1980s TV, is somehow believable. This is the kind of book you lie in bed with all day. When you get up you open a bottle of wine and finish it. Jilly is brilliant.

Raunchy, Trouser Ripping Romance
The wives are both beautiful and rich, the men are both powerful, gorgeous,full of humour and sheer sex appeal and mistresses exude pure sex. Rivals will leave you panting for more as you follow the adventures of the beautiful and the powerful. Rivals concetrates on the Hardwork, Powerful influences and trouser dropping behind the scenes of television.Relationships (quick romps) are a common event and at least a couple or the characters in Rivals are in fact Common Property.

No matter how much trouble Rupert Campbell Black (Minister of Sport)gets into, bedding the wives of Gloucester, you just can't help but loving him to death and desperatly shouting at the pages for hime to get it together with Taggie.

You will laugh until you cry, scream, shout and call Tony Baddingham every name under the sun. It may sound a bit of a cliche but Rivals is one book you won't be able to put down.

The best of them all !!!!!!!!!!
I'm from Dublin but in Australia at the moment, I started reading Jilly's books and I am addicted !!! Rivals was definetly my favourite of them all , the story of Rupert and Taggie made the book impossible to put down !! I loved seeing the other side of Rupert !! I have heard there has been a TV series made , if anyone know how I can get a hold of these , please let me know as I would love to see them !!! Enjoy cheers !!!!