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  • Rivals

  • Rutshire Chronicles, Book 2
  • By: Jilly Cooper
  • Narrated by: Sherry Baines
  • Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (45 ratings)

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Rivals

By: Jilly Cooper
Narrated by: Sherry Baines
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Publisher's summary

Into the cutthroat world of Corinium television comes mega-star Declan O'Hara. Declan soon realises that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous, domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's programme.

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 head at almost every throw....

©1988 Jilly Cooper (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd
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Roller coaster ride of romance

Wow !!! What a spellbinding story, filled with fun interesting characters and scandalous behaviors— couldn’t stop listening to the story!

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A twist at every turn…

I enjoyed all of it. I started out routing for one side, ended up rooting for the other. Can’t wait for the show.

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interesting from the former colonies

I finally storyline interesting relatively engaging the characters holy on sympathetic pretty miserable generally and not much to like about any of them honestly which I think was the point. for the end I was actually yelling at Declan because he was so ridiculous and Patrick so arrogant I never understood a portion when it seemed Declan was fine with baz and tag but not Rupert. understanding that there was significant work to describe whatever was wearing setting the scene was fantastic it really put you in these towns in Great Britain and allowed you to realize that it was the 80s and needs epidemic was also covered from a heterosexual point of view
new money versus old. creators vs owners rich versus poor. I did find it some hot lines were never wrapped up or never explained which was kind of annoying but all I was pretty impressed

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Great story telling!

Sherry has a wonderful voice for audio books. I enjoyed listening. Jilly Cooper is such a great author and story teller and I think Sherry paid homage to that.

For future reference, Moet is pronounced with a hard ‘t’ and not Moay! It’s derivative is Dutch not French!

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Never before

I don’t read romance novels but I got this audio book free. I loved it. Character development is superb and the plot immersive. I will certainly read Jilly Cooper again!

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A pleasurable escape

A very-funny leap back to the 80s, when even dishonesty was more honest. Some wonderful characters and an enjoyable plot that keeps you entertained all the way through

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Rivals

Great story once again from Jilly Cooper. Didn't want to put it down. Well done

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Hard Pass

I stopped half way through. The story was weak and the narration was slow and hard to distinguish between the characters, male or female.

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Boring and way too long

The reader was wonderful . However the book was mostly just about perverse English men and silly women. So painful I couldn’t even finish.

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