Book description
Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - adores racing and
harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed
owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies,
Etta 's selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset
house to live in a hideous modern bungalowin the Cotswold village of Willowwood.
Etta's life is transformed when she finds a horribly mutilated filly
wandering in the woods. She names herMrs Wilkinson and nurses her back
to health. The filly charms everyone in the village, and whentests
reveal her to be a spectacularly well-bred racehorse a village
syndicate is formed to put the filly into training. Captivating vast
crowds as she progresses from point-to-point to major races, she
brings fame and fortune to the syndicate, until, at last, she is
entered in the greatest jump race of them all. Can Mrs Wilkinson win
the Grand National? And can Etta gain her heart's desire?
Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The
author of many number one bestselling novels, she lives in
Gloucestershire with her husband Leo, her rescue greyhound Feather and
her black cat Feral.
She was appointed OBE in 2004 for services to literature, and in
2009 was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of
Gloucestershire for her contribution to literature and services to the County.
