Appassionata: A masterpiece of sex and drama from the Sunday Times bestseller Jilly Cooper

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Rivals is part of Jilly Cooper’s racy 10-book 'Rutshire Chronicles’ series which follows members of England’s power-grabbing social elite as they fall in and out of bed with each other and fight tooth and nail to get ahead. In addition Aidan also told The Times in a recent interview: “We have so much sex on our show, we have to have two intimacy coaches. Two! There's no Rivals trailer yet but we’ll be sure to post a trailer for Rivals as soon as it lands. Behind the scenes and locations on Rivals

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MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) During a recent interview with us Aidan revealed more about his Rivals role: "I look like I’m from circa 1975 but it’s for Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, which I’m filming until October. I hadn’t read Rivals before. It seems very British so it wasn’t really on my radar, but it’s really fun. But after we wrap the tache is definitely going to go and I’m going to take a break – I’d love a big holiday!" Sex, money, power: it sounds a simple enough recipe. It is. And it's one which Cooper has deployed with almost no variation over the course of seven bestselling, bonkbusting novels. Fair enough - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. About the only thing that has changed between books, indeed, is the milieu. For each new novel, Cooper has selected a differently glamorous world in which her stories can unfurl. Thus Riders was set in showjumping, Rivals in TV, Appassionata and Score! in classical music, and so on.

Sexually, Jilly Cooper's world is an idyll. No one is frigid, no one has difficulties in bed. Mutuality of orgasm is a given. There are no venereal diseases, and rarely any talk of contraception. Pregnancies, which seldom happen, are always OK when they do, if only because that introduces a potential new orgiaste into the scenario in 16 years' time.

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The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1993) is a novel written by Jilly Cooper as part of the Rutshire Chronicles, about a womanizer who gets embroiled in a scheme to punish wayward husbands. Aidan Turner plays TV presenter Declan O’Hara, who’s wooed toCoriniumTV from the BBC byBaddinghamhimself, but feels he’s been swindled and vows to get his revenge. David Tennant is Rupert’s single-mindedly egotisticalRutshireneighbour Lord TonyBaddingham, controller ofCoriniumTelevision. The Challenge season 39: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the competition seriesFor the television movie, see The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (film). First edition (publ. Bantam Books) Nonetheless, all the nine chronological books in the series have all adopted a unique plot and theme, making each a standalone novel. Since the launch of the Rutshire Chronicles in 1986, the series has in many ways redefined English romance. From the non-traditional lifestyles of British families, where the upper-class status only perpetuates deception, to the polo crowds where love stories are punctuated by promiscuity, the Rutshire Chronicles provides a third-person perspective of modern-day English romance. The series is an integration of adultery scenes, the lure of scandalous love stories, the fate of illegitimate sons, and realities of fatal love within the setting of a fictional English county.