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Score! by Jilly Cooper is a wildly entertaining novel of romance, intrigue, music, sex and dark humour, centred on an ambitious film production of Verdi’s Don Carlos that goes spectacularly off the rails.
The notorious conductor Sir Roberto Rannaldini is determined to make the definitive film of the opera and enlists his charismatic French godson, Tristan de Montigny, one of Europe’s hottest directors. But with temperamental singers, demanding designers, a fiercely opinionated French film crew and a fourteenth-century abbey reputedly haunted by disgruntled ghosts, the production is anything but straightforward. Tristan’s growing attraction to Tabitha Campbell-Black only adds to the trouble, particularly when Rannaldini is determined to keep them apart. When news breaks that Rannaldini is writing his memoirs and plans to expose damaging secrets about those around him, the already chaotic production takes an even darker turn.
