Mount! Audiobook (Free)

In Jilly Cooper’s most recent, raciest novel, Rupert Campbell-Black takes centre stage in the cut-throat world of flat racing.

Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that Love Rat, his adored gray horse, be proclaimed champion stallion. He longs to trounce Roberto’s Revenge, the stallion possessed by his detested rival Cosmo Rannaldini, this means abandoning his racing empire at Penscombe and his darling wife Taggie, and chasing after winners in the richest races worldwide, from Dubai to Los Angeles to about Mount! Melbourne.

Luckily, the fort in the home is held by Rupert’s assistant Gav, a genius with horses, fancied by every stable lass, yet damaged simply by alcoholism and a vile wife. When Gala, a grieving but ravishing Zimbabwean widow goes to Penscombe as carer for Rupert’s wayward father, it is not just Gav who is attracted to her: a returning Rupert discovers himself dangerously enticed.

Gala adores horses, and when she switches to working in the lawn, her carer’s work is taken by a devastatingly handsome South African man who claims to be homosexual but seems much keener on looking after the angelic Taggie. And as progressively sinister works of sabotage strike at Penscombe, the overall game of musical loose containers gathers apace .

Many people really like Jilly Cooper:

‘Sex and horses: who could require more?’ Weekend Telegraph

‘Joyful and mischeivous’ Jojo Moyes

‘A delight from start to end’ Daily Mail

‘Fun, sexy and unputdownable’ Marian Keyes

‘Escape into an alternative solution universe where all is correct with the world’ Guardian

‘Flawlessly enjoyable’ Helen Fielding