Appassionata: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 5 Audiobook (Free)

Effervescent as champagne, Jilly Cooper’s novel brings back outdated favourites like Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black.

Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest as well as the most exploited lady in the world. When a dramatic suicide attempt ruined her violin career, she established her sights around the male-dominated levels from the conductor’s rostrum. Given the chance to dominate the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby about Appassionata: Rutshire Chronicles, Reserve 5 is usually ecstatic, not realising the RSO is composed of the wildest couple of music artists ever to blow a horn or caress a fiddle. Abby finds it increasingly hard to control her undisciplined rabble and pretend she actually is not madly attracted to the fatally glamorous horn player, Viking O’Neill. And then Rannaldini, arch-fiend and international maestro, rolls up with Machiavellian programs of his own.

‘Great tasting: light like a souffle and with divine flashes of wit. I possibly could not put the…thing down.” Weekend EXPRESS

“Appassionata – the divine Jilly Cooper’s latest and greatest book.’ THE Weekend TIMES

‘Triumphant… a boisterous story of sex and Chopin amongst Rutshire folk.’ TATLER

‘Sexy, dazzling protagonists… the humour comes dense and fast.” DAILY EXPRESS