Book description
Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most
flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the
loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world. When a dramatic
suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the
male-dominated heights of the conductor's rostrum.
Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra,
Abby is ecstatic, not realising the RSO is in hock up to its neck and
is composed of the wildest bunch of musicians ever to blow a horn or
caress a fiddle. Abby finds it increasingly difficult to control her
undisciplined rabble and pretend she is not madly attracted to the
fatally glamorous horn player, Viking O'Neill, who claims droit de
seigneur over every pretty woman joining the orchestra. And then
Rannaldini, arch-fiend and international maestro, rolls up with
Machiavellian plans of his own to sabotage the RSO.
Effervescent as champagne, Jilly Cooper's novel brings back old
favourites like Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black, but also ends
triumphantly with a rampageous orchestral tour of Spain and the high
drama of an international piano competition.
Jilly Cooper is a journalist, writer and media superstar. The author
of many number one bestselling novels, including
Riders, Rivals,
Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous,
Appassionata, Score!
and
Pandora
, she lives in Gloucestershire with her husband, Leo, five cats and her
greyhound dog. She was appointed OBE in the 2004 Queen's Birthday
Honours List for her contribution to literature.
