Rivals
by Jilly Cooper· 2024
The story revolves around the fight for control of a Cotswolds television company, involving intrigue, backstabbing and bed-hopping at every turn.
Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and dissolute, and now the Tory Minister for Sport.
Declan realizes that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon.
As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown in the bed and boardroom.
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The story revolves around the fight for control of a Cotswolds television company, involving intrigue, backstabbing and bed-hopping at every turn. Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and dissolute, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. Declan realizes that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon. As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown in the bed and boardroom.