Cosmo is best friends with Dora, Rupert’s teenage press officer, and he’s extremely kind to his trainer Isa Lovell when Isa’s father, Jake, dies. At first it buckled against her tightness then, tearing her because of her dryness, forced itself inside. He still adores Taggie but is increasingly angry when she refuses to accompany him because there’s so much to do at home: coping with grandchildren, running the cake stall at the fete, organizing a huge surprise party for him.

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Whilst I cannot deny enjoying the fuck out of this book, in all it's almost pastiche levels of Cooper glory, there are aspects I found…problematic. Every room I see in the old Cotswold-stone house is similarly full of memories and possessions, built up over the decades. As suggested above, major female characters are well-developed and more interesting than the 100 or so pages of Anastasia Steele that I troubled to read. This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one.There are innuendos and outright sexual comments that sprint across the line of acceptable conduct, circuit the planet to cross the line again, then draw penis emojis on that line. She became a journalist where she wrote non-fictional articles before writing some of the romance novels. Rupert is back - and thanks to some apparent age massaging (the dates don't seem to be canon any more, so just try to overlook this - Young Eddie's age is a particular issue) Rupert is still a flawlessly gorgeous romantic hero, virile and beautiful, in his late fifties. Jilly Cooper has a gift for creating memorable characters and she even manages to make the animals in her stories into characters.

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To help the reader keep track, each book begins with a list and brief description of the characters.In the Camilla Long interview there was quite a bit about how she'd had to support her family pretty much always - well Leo I mean. Unable to have children, she and Leo were in the process of adopting a baby (Felix, followed later by Emily) when she met Godfrey Smith, then editor of the Sunday Times magazine, at a dinner, and regaled him with the details of life as a young wife.

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Yet at the end, everything is tied up in a nice little bow and we marvel at what a fantastic man Rupert is. It humanizes RCB who, let's face it, would be an aging creepy Lothario at this point (no matter how you massage the dates for plot purposes) if it wasn't for Tag. But the fact that there isn’t much of a plot doesn’t really matter, because that’s not what Jilly is about.On my bedside table at the moment are the collected poems of Coleridge, Tennyson and Matthew Arnold. follows the same approach, including characters from previous novels and introducing new characters who are relatives, friends or rivals of existing characters.