“Helen, Rupert’s wife, is always accusing us of being intellectual dolts. I exercise with weights in the morning. Jake found it difficult not to laugh as the girls carrying the boxes of rosettes, like flag-sellers, came out with their ludicrously stiff, wide-apart-legged walk. He was broad-shouldered, bronzed and rippling fit as any of his horses, thought Janey.
Set in the tense, heroic world of show-jumping, Jilly Cooper’s novel moves from home-county gymkhanas thro ” He pulled her into his arms again, letting her tears drench his shirt. “That’s fine,” she was saying in a careful voice. With her slender, androgynous figure with its suggestion of anorexia, jagged cabin-boy hair, and gamin, wistful, extraordinarily photogenic face, she was a true child of her time.
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