Polo [Import] [Paperback]

Jilly Cooper (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 25, 2008

In Jilly Cooper's third Rutshire chronicle, we meet Ricky France-Lynch, who is moody, macho, and magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod. Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school and become a polo player. The polo set were ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous. Perdita thought she'd get along with them very well. But before she had time to grow up, Ricky's life exploded into tragedy, and Perdita turned into a brat who loved only her horses - and Ricky France-Lynch. Ricky's obsession to win back his wife, and Perdita's to win both Ricky and a place as a top class polo player, take the reader on a wildly exciting journey - to the estancias of Argentina, to Palm Beach and Deauville, and on to the royal polo fields of England and the glamorous pitches of California where the most heroic battle of all is destined to be fought - a match that is about far more than just the winning of a huge silver cup...

Editorial Reviews

Review

" "Polo" is the best thing she's every done"
-Lynda Lee-Potter, "Daily Mail"
" Compulsively readable and funny...the irrepressible Jilly remains irresistible"
-Joseph Connolly, "The Times"
" The world of smart women, handsome army officers, romantic school girls, lustful grooms, insecure wives... they have fire in their bellies (and generally in their groins too) and a massive appetite for life"
-Nicholas Coleridge, "Sunday Times"

From the Publisher

"Polo is the best thing she's every done"
-Lynda Lee-Potter, Daily Mail

"Compulsively readable and funny...the irrepressible Jilly remains irresistible"
-Joseph Connolly, The Times

"The world of smart women, handsome army officers, romantic school girls, lustful grooms, insecure wives... they have fire in their bellies (and generally in their groins too) and a massive appetite for life"
-Nicholas Coleridge, Sunday Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Corgi; New edition edition (June 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552156167
• ISBN-13: 978-0552156165
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1.6 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #584,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as "Riders"? I think so!, December 14, 1999

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Anne Cahill (Groton, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Polo (Paperback)

"Riders" was my first introduction to Jilly Cooper as a horse-crazed teenager, but since then I've enjoyed most of her books, not just the horsey ones. That said, "Riders" and "Polo" are my favorites! Coming from the show-jumping world myself, where "Riders" centers, I didn't know (or care) much about the upper-crust world of polo. That all changed once I entered the world of Perdita, Luke, and Ricky! Sure, Perdita's often an extremely unsympathetic character -- but aren't we all? Her all-too-human tendencies are what make her such an engrossing character, and even though she doesn't seem to deserve a saint like Luke -- isn't that what we all hope for? A person who can look past our failings. While another reader calls her characters one-dimensional, I strongly disagree. Jilly has created characters that readers such as myself absolutely PRAY will show up again in future books -- it's that hard to put them away at the end. You don't create that kind of interest in one-dimensional characters. Please, Jilly, keep writing about these people we love! And while you're at it, write another horsey book!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh all the way through, December 16, 2000

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A. Woodley "Patroness, Janeites, the Austen list" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Polo (Paperback)

The third in the series of Jilly Cooper's wonderfully hilarious Campbell-Black books - although this is the one in which things really depart quite markedly from Rupert Campbell-Black's life and he becomes a bit player in everyone elses story.

Like all other books in the series the plot is set around one theme - in this case Polo. The main characters are Ricky France-Lynch, fabulous but moody English Polo-Playing star, and Perdita Macleod- the stroppy young English school-girl who longs for Ricky almost as much as she longs to play polo. Their stories and those of dozens of other hugely likeable and wildly flawed characters interweave in wonderfully satisfying and hilarious story. No one in is perfect in Jilly Cooper world - which makes for great reading.

You don't really have to have read the first two books in the series to know what is going on here. Most of the characters are new and this is a whole new plot so you really won't have missed out on much. The few characters that to turn up again are explained briefly anyway. However, if you haven't already read Riders or Rivals, the first two books in this series, then get thee to a library.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "10 goal" story!, March 28, 2001

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B. Carrington (Connecticut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Polo (Paperback)

Enjoyable and thoroughly entertaining! Cooper's characters are colorful and fresh, and stay that way until the very end. I also applaud her ability to weave her story from a sport that very few know much about. For those that are new to the game, polo (the sport) is a true drama; not only of egoes and money, but more importantly of horse lovers(wealthy or not). It is a drama that Cooper manages to credibly capture; not only from the sidelines, but from those involved on the field as well(players, grooms and patrons). Jilly you most certainly did your homework! As warm weather comes, Polo is one of those books you may find yourself reading each summer again and again. Humor, romance, tradgedy, and action. There is something in it for everyone.