Riders, Jilly Cooper
Riders, Jilly Cooper
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Riders

Author: Jilly Cooper

Narrator: Gerri Halligan

Unabridged: 30 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/04/2025


Synopsis

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals—now a streaming series on Hulu!

The classic hit every Englishwoman remembers with a sigh—Riders, the steamy, scandalous tale of sexual and equestrian competition within the heroic world of international show jumping.

Welcome to a world of cutthroat competition populated by fearless athletes, wealthy sponsors, and beautiful starlets and set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds of the world. Within this arena we meet the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, under whose magic hands the most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable, who is driven by his hatred of Rupert Campbell-Black, the handsome and supremely confident star of the show ring. They steal each other's horses and love each other's women as they push themselves and their mounts to impossible extremes, until their feud erupts, with devastating consequences, at the Los Angeles Olympics.

Reviews

rating: 4.5 as someone who grew up reading misty of chincoteague, saddle club, and heartland, i desperately wanted an adult equestrian story with gossip girl-esque drama, and riders delivered satisfactorily (and then some). this helped me live out my unfulfilled event dreams. set to the countryside ou......more

Goodreads review by Liz on July 08, 2015

This must be the tenth time at least that I've read this novel since my teens and it never disappoints or get's old - I'd hit a bit of a reading slump so picked this up as a tonic and it worked an absolute treat. I'm now going to move on to the rest of the saga- next up Rivals. Riders is just simply......more

Goodreads review by Yolanda on December 19, 2015

I actually found the book boring? The same thing happens again and again. Rupert has affairs, his wife Helen is a drag, Tory is fat, Billy is a kind fool, Jake doesn't realize he loves his wife until its almost too late, shows, shows, shows......blah blah blah......more

Goodreads review by BRIONY on June 30, 2019

Set in the idyllic Cotswolds countryside, Riders follows lives of international show-jumpers and their friends, family, lovers - and animals: Jake Lovell, gypsy-born, a brilliant horseman seeking revenge for years of bullying at the hands of his nemesis - the devastatingly handsome but roguish Ruper......more