Will he need a leg-up? Jilly Cooper brings back racy Rupert in Mount!

The novelist’s new book reintroduces the notorious Rupert Campbell-Black, older but hopefully no wiser, and promises ‘lots of human nookie’

Jilly Cooper has promised there will be “lots of human nookie” in her new novel Mount!, which is due out this autumn.

Cooper’s publisher Transworld said that Mount! would be set “in the glamorous and fiercely competitive world of flat racing”, and that Cooper’s dashingly handsome former playboy Rupert Campbell-Black would once again be “centre-stage”. Campbell-Black was the star of Cooper’s first “bonkbuster”, Riders, and found love in her second, Rivals, with the raven-haired Taggie. Although he has played a large part in her other novels, and has gone on to have a family with Taggie, he has not been the centre of a novel since.

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