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Etta has to leave the beautiful house she has shared with her husband to live in a hideous bungalow in the village of Willowwood, where strained circumstances cause her to be at the beck and call of her grown-up children and their horrendous brats. Without a husband, friends or the home she loved, Etta's life seems bleak until one night she comes across a terrified, horribly injured horse abandoned in the wood. Etta takes the horse home and tends her wounds, and as the horse recovers she proves herself to be a massively talented steeplechaser....
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Race horsesWidowsGrand National (Horse race)Racehorse trainersFictionFiction, general
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Jilly Cooper
21 February 1937 – 2025-10-05
Jilly Cooper is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the six blockbuster novels Rutshire Chronicles.
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