Jump! Audiobook (Free)

Jilly Cooper profits to horses inside a fabulously entertaining romp through the world of jump racing.

Etta Bancroft – special, kind, still beautiful – adores racing and harbours a crush using one of its celebrities, the handsome, high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Etta’s selfish, ambitious kids move her from her beautiful Dorset home to live in a hideous modern bungalow in the Cotswold village of Willowwood.

Etta’s life changes when, in the snow in nearby woods, about Jump! she finds a horribly mutilated filly, which she names Mrs Wilkinson and nurses back again to wellness. The filly charms everyone in the community, then tests reveal her to be always a spectacularly well-bred racehorse. After a nail-biting courtroom case, she is honored to Etta, thus ensuring the enduring and vengeful enmity of her previous trainer and owner. A village syndicate is formed to put the filly into training, comprising a riotous mixture of local characters, who set off to the races inside a minibus clanking with bottles. Ridden by Rupert’s delectable god-daughter, Amber, Mrs Wilkinson captivates huge crowds as she progresses from point-to-point to major races and brings fame and fortune towards the syndicate, until, finally, she is came into in the Grand National.

Can she be the 1st mare in over fifty years, and Amber the initial female ever, to win this mighty competition?

In Jump! you might meet rich, capricious owners, obsessive coaches, gallant steady lads and lasses and tough, brave jockeys; you can fall deeply in love with the horses, and above all with Mrs Wilkinson herself – amusing, heroic and gutsy, she will gallop into your heart forever.