Description
Jump! by Jilly Cooper is a lively novel set in the glamorous, unpredictable world of jump racing, combining horses, romance, family conflict and the larger-than-life characters of the Cotswolds.
After the death of her bullying husband, kind-hearted Etta Bancroft is forced by her selfish children to leave her Dorset home. Her fortunes change when she discovers a badly injured filly in the woods and nurses her back to health. Named Mrs Wilkinson, the horse is later revealed to be a superbly bred racehorse. After a dramatic court case awards the filly to Etta, a colourful village syndicate forms to put her into training. Ridden by Rupert Campbell-Black’s goddaughter Amber, Mrs Wilkinson rises from point-to-point racing to the major events, eventually reaching the Grand National. With the possibility of becoming the first mare in more than fifty years to win the race — and Amber the first woman to do so — the stakes could hardly be higher.
