Riders
by Jilly Cooper
4.0
Open LibraryFirst lines
Because he had to get up unusually early on Saturday, Jake Lovell kept waking up throughout the night, wracked by terrifying dreams about being late.
Because he had to get up unusually early on Saturday, Jake Lovell kept waking up throughout the night, wracked by terrifying dreams about being late.
About this book
Set against the backdrop of the English Cotswolds countryside, Riders follows the fortunes of a group of fame and money hungry show jumping stars. Jake Lovell, the gypsy-born hero of the novel, is a brilliant horseman desperately seeking revenge for years of bullying at the hands of the glamorous, but brutish aristocrat, Rupert Campbell-Black. With the help of his rich debutante wife, Tory Maxwell, he is able to set himself up his own yard and begins building a reputation on the show jumping circuit. Meanwhile, Rupert is content living the jet set lifestyle with best friend Billy Lloyd-Foxe, plus a string of beautiful women, horses and dogs. Meeting his beautiful wife, Helen Macaulay, does little to curb his promiscuity and he eventually falls back into a life of parties, alcohol and casual sex. When Jake and Rupert meet again for the first time since school, old rivalries are sparked back to life as they fight it out to prove who is the greater horseman and perhaps more importantly, the greater lover. Along the way, Cooper gives us a peek into the lives of this close knit community of tops riders, their horses, grooms and families. We see the highs and lows of life in the equestrian world, but who will eventually come out on top in the final showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics, and will success ultimately lead to disaster for Jake? - from wikipedia
Themes & subjects
Rutshire ChroniclesHorsemanshipFictionShow jumpingFiction, romance, contemporaryEngland, fiction
First published 1985Characters & people
About the author
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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