![]() ![]() I'm not sure that the modern mind would read some of the relationships without censure that is markedly absent here. Many of whom seem to leap in and out of bed at a drop of the hat. Then there are the friends, family, grooms (almost exclusively female) the chef d'equipe, the other jockeys and the dogs. ![]() Mixed up in this tussle you have their wives, neither of whom are in what you might call a happy marriage, although I'd rather Tory's drudgery than Helen's neglect. ![]() Unlike Rupert he does not charm women from the trees (although he does manage when he puts his mind to it). His opposition is Jake Lovell, part gypsy, loner, dark and mysterious and poor. He seems to me very much a man of his time and to the modern mind comes across as a complete twat. Rupert Campbell-Black is the classic upper class cad about town, apparently irresistible to women (times have changed, I'd have slapped his face) who rides effortlessly and seduces women with the same ease. That they both follow the same career path - into show jumping - means they cannot avoid each other. In essence its a tale of two men who are very different and loathe each other. I felt my hair perming and my shoulder pads extending as I read this. Published in the mid 80s this is very much of its time. I would just like to point out that this came off his shelves - our owning this is nothing to do with me. ![]()
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