Jilly Cooper results to horses in a fabulously entertaining romp through the world of jump racing.

Etta Bancroft – nice, kind, still beautiful – adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome, high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Etta’s selfish, ambitious children move her from her beautiful Dorset house to live in a hideous modern bungalow in the Cotswold village of Willowwood.

Etta’s life adjustments when, in the snow in nearby woods, about Leap! she discovers a horribly mutilated filly, which she titles Mrs Wilkinson and nurses back again to health. The filly charms everyone in the village, then assessments reveal her to be a spectacularly well-bred racehorse. After a nail-biting courtroom case, she actually is awarded to Etta, thus ensuring the lasting and vengeful enmity of her former trainer and owner. A town syndicate is formed to put the filly into schooling, comprising a riotous mix of local characters, who set off to the races inside a minibus clanking with bottles. Ridden by Rupert’s delectable god-daughter, Amber, Mrs Wilkinson captivates huge crowds as she advances from point-to-point to major races and brings fame and fortune to the syndicate, until, at last, she is inserted in the Grand Country wide.

Can she end up being the 1st mare in over fifty years, and Amber the first female ever, to get this mighty competition?

In Jump! you are going to meet wealthy, capricious owners, obsessive coaches, gallant stable lads and lasses and difficult, brave jockeys; you might fall in love with the horses, and most importantly with Mrs Wilkinson herself – amusing, heroic and gutsy, she will gallop into the heart forever.