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Octavia
by
Jilly Cooper
As soon as Octavia caught a glimpse of Jeremy in the nightclub, she knew she just had to have him. It didn't matter that he'd just got engaged to an old school friend of hers, plump, good natured Gussie; he was looking at Octavia in the way that suggested bed rather than breakfast, and she was weak at the knees... But Octavia was used to men falling in love with her at a m...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
April 22nd 2005
by Corgi
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Just the book for a morning in bed with flu.
I was reminded of this book because I picked it at random to compare with an unpublished manuscript. On page 100 of Jilly Cooper, the heroine was going to a party. On page 100 of the unpublished book, the heroine had a falling out in the pub and went home alone and there were no messages on her answer machine. Which world would you rather inhabit?
Interestingly non PC here and there - it's a vanished world. But what fun!!!
I was reminded of this book because I picked it at random to compare with an unpublished manuscript. On page 100 of Jilly Cooper, the heroine was going to a party. On page 100 of the unpublished book, the heroine had a falling out in the pub and went home alone and there were no messages on her answer machine. Which world would you rather inhabit?
Interestingly non PC here and there - it's a vanished world. But what fun!!!
During my teens and early twenties I devoured Jilly Cooper books. Riders, Rivals, Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, and then the "name" books, which included Emily, Imogen, Prudence and Octavia. In fact, I included the "name" books in a list of chick lit precursors.
I hadn't read any of Cooper's books for years, but when I heard that Octavia was being made into a TV series, I thought I'd give it a re-read. And am I ever sorry I did. We don't usually do spoilers on Trashionista, but I can't...more
I hadn't read any of Cooper's books for years, but when I heard that Octavia was being made into a TV series, I thought I'd give it a re-read. And am I ever sorry I did. We don't usually do spoilers on Trashionista, but I can't...more
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I have no excuse, apart from the fact that I watched 'Never Let Me Go' and then a drama about Israel/Palestine back-to-back and desperately needed something to cheer me up. Suffice to say, this did the trick. Jilly Cooper rocks.
There's something very satisfying about a story where selfish cow gets her comeuppance and goes on to become a much nicer person (Emily Giffin's Something Blue is another example). I really enjoyed this, it was fluffy chick-lit but Jilly Cooper's style is very fun and readable. I WAS a bit put off by Gareth's unapologetic sexism and treatment of Octavia - giving her 'a beating' (which I assumed from the context meant a smacking, but STILL) to punish her for bad behaviour and calling her names ('...more
read a few of these in my lat teens - don't think I would read them now and can't say I remember much about them!
The original chicklit from way back when!
I read a lot of Jilly Cooper when I was a young teenager and learned an awful lot from her! I loved it at the time and think its about time I read them all again!
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Jilly Cooper, OBE (born February 21, 1937) is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the six blockbuster novels the Rutshire Chronicles.
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