
Appassionata
The Rutshire Chronicles : Book 5
By: Jilly Cooper
Paperback | 7 May 2007 | Edition Number 1
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The most fun you can have under a Tenor...
Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world. When a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the male-dominated heights of the conductor''s rostrum.
Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic, not realising the RSO is in hock up to its neck and is composed of the wildest bunch of musicians ever to blow a horn or caress a fiddle. Abby finds it increasingly difficult to control her undisciplined rabble and pretend she is not madly attracted to the fatally glamorous horn player, Viking O''Neill, who claims droit de seigneur over every pretty woman joining the orchestra. And then Rannaldini, arch-fiend and international maestro, rolls up with Machiavellian plans of his own to sabotage the RSO.
Effervescent as champagne, Jilly Cooper''s novel brings back old favourites like Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black, but also ends triumphantly with a rampageous orchestral tour of Spain and the high drama of an international piano competition.
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Praise for Appassionata:
''Delicious ... I could not put the damned thing down'' Sunday Express
''A boisterous tale of sex and Chopin'' Tatler
''Sexy, dazzling protagonists... the humour comes thick and fast'' Daily Express
Industry Reviews
Triumphant... a boisterous tale of sex and Chopin amongst Rutshire folk * Tatler *
Sexy, dazzling protagonists... the humour comes thick and fast * Daily Express *
Delicious: light as a souffle and with divine flashes of wit. I could not put the damned thing down * Sunday Express *
ISBN: 9780552156387
ISBN-10: 0552156388
Series: Rutshire Chronicles
Published: 7th May 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 896
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 24.9 x 16.5 x 9.5
Weight (kg): 0.61
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