Description
Score! by Jilly Cooper is a riotous novel set against the worlds of opera, film and high society, where artistic ambition, romantic complications and larger-than-life personalities collide. The notorious conductor Sir Roberto Rannaldini is determined to make the definitive film of Verdi’s Don Carlos and enlists his charismatic French godson, Tristan de Montigny, to direct it.
Filming at Rannaldini’s heavily haunted fourteenth-century abbey soon becomes anything but straightforward. Temperamental singers, demanding designers, a rebellious French film crew and a host of restless ghosts all add to the chaos, while Tristan finds himself increasingly drawn to Tabitha Campbell-Black. Rannaldini is determined to keep them apart, and matters become even more dangerous when news breaks that he is writing his memoirs and intends to reveal the secrets of those around him. Funny, outrageous and romantic, Score! is a story of rivalry, scandal, loneliness and passionate love, filled with the extravagant characters and drama that are characteristic of Jilly Cooper’s novels.
