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| Title | : | Wicked! (Rutshire Chronicles #8) |
| Author | : | Jilly Cooper |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1008 pages |
| Published | : | May 7th 2007 by Corgi (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Romance |
Jilly Cooper
Paperback | Pages: 1008 pages Rating: 3.69 | 2358 Users | 110 Reviews
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At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Janna is young, pretty, enthusiastic and vastly brave - and she will do anything to rescue her demoralised, run-down and cash-strapped school. Neither parents nor staff of either school are too keen on this radical move, although some can see the possible financial advantages. For the students, however, it offers great opportunities to get up to even more mayhem than usual.
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| Original Title: | Wicked! |
| ISBN: | 0552151564 (ISBN13: 9780552151566) |
| Series: | Rutshire Chronicles #8 |
| Literary Awards: | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2006) |
Rating Regarding Books Wicked! (Rutshire Chronicles #8)
Ratings: 3.69 From 2358 Users | 110 ReviewsPiece Regarding Books Wicked! (Rutshire Chronicles #8)
Another splendid page-turner from Jilly Cooper. There are a few bits of child abuse covered therein, which upset me, but were crucial to the plot, having been perpetrated by the "baddies". I was rooting on the side of the "goodies/underdog" all the way through. Cooper lets some familiar characters loose in that familiar GSOH irreverant style and ties it all in at the end with a few Kleenex moments. It's another toffs v. scum-come-good done in an educational setting. If you've read some ofIf you enjoy broad satire, have a bit of a clue about the British class system and are open to novels that lead you on goose trails with hijinks and shenanigans all the way to a neatly and delightful ending, you can't do better than Jilly Cooper. Her books are, to use the English expression, "a lark ", filled with high comedy, pretentious snobs, salt of the earth types, love stories, romps, successes and rightful devastation of the villains in the plot. The plot, however, is always so serpentine
Listen, I was going to start this off with a disclaimer about never having read erotica, or being very well interested in romance at all. But even people who read these genres should be appalled.!WHAT THE FUCK!The first 40% were surprisingly good. Id read a review that had expressed Jillys outdated characterisations and had very low expectations about the fact the book was erotica. But that first 40% had maybe one or two steamy moments in the form of accidentally brushing hands and longing
This is one of the best of the books in the Rutshire Chronicles. After the previous book, Pandora, which I thought was the weakest in the series, this was a welcome change. The story is of two different schools, the public Larkshire High and the private Bagley Hall. The story concerns how the two schools differ due in part to the economic disparity of the students, Bagley's students come from privileged backgrounds where the Lark students live in the "inner city," many have with parents with
Not nearly as good as Jilly's earlier stuff. It was really, really creepy reading the child sex scenes. I really didn't want to read about the size of a 15-year-olds' willy. Made me feel like a filthy old woman. The only great character was 10-year-old Dora. But again, I could have done without the description of her high firm little bottom. Jilly should stick to good old-fashioned adult bonkfests.
Don't waste your time...but sadly, it hooked me in a totally trashy car-wreck of a way.
I love I love I love. I gulped it in two days and was so obsessed, I didn't feel like doing anything else. This one takes place over 3-4 years and follows Janna, a young and idealistic head of school, who is given the impossible task of rejuvenating and saving Larkminster School, the school that is for the kids for the British equivalent of the 'projects' - the neglected kids of the large counsel estate. It doesn't help that the board wants her to fail so that they can close the school and sell
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