It also led to a furore over the two covers this week when female authors weighed in with their views on the new version.
It is almost as if that 24-carat cad Rupert has been subdued emasculated even. It is also more decorously positioned on the woman’s hip rather than her bottom. In the latest edition of Riders, which is republished this week to coincide with the book’s 30th anniversary, the roving male hand is suddenly smaller and less prominent. There was no doubt it belonged to the devastatingly handsome anti-hero of Jilly’s Rutshire Chronicles, that philandering equestrian Rupert Campbell-Black.īut what has happened now? Rupert’s priapic bravado seems to have deserted him. The hand cupped the woman’s buttock, straying perilously close to…ahem…indecency. It featured a pert female bottom, clad in skin-tight white jodhpurs, being caressed by a lascivious male hand. The jacket of the original, published in 1985, became iconic. What is upsetting her? The image on the latest version of the book has been toned down, diluted, sanitised.
She is reflecting on the ‘awful’ change to the cover of her newly re-released blockbuster Riders. Well done Jilly, you came up trumps this time.Jilly Cooper described the change to the cover of her re-released novel as 'awful' But these are minor disappointments.In all other respects this is good enough to have restored my faith to go on and buy and read some more in the Rutshire Chronicles series. Taggie still seems unfortunately wetter than a haddock in bathing trunks and Helen has now been changed into a real harpie which is I think a real shame. This book is really different, and tho it's no PD James it's a good stab (excuse the pun) at something a little different and it does make a real and very refreshing change. It also has a lot of the characters from Apassionata and Man who made Husbands Jealous/Polo briefly, and in the case of Meredith, more extensively returning to liven the proceedings, along with the dreadful Hermione, Ranaldinni (who now definitely wont be back in any future ones !) and some new and enjoyable lively characters. If Apassionata was all about Marcus, then Score is all about Tabitha. I have never read this one, after the awful Apassionata I gave Ms Cooper a miss for quite a while, but I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it although it could have lost 10 chapters and not missed them towards the end. OTT AND ITS NOT PD JAMES BUT I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED
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