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Jilly Cooper is a British writer who has written this series of very funny Soap Opera-ish novels which send up the genre typified by the likes of Jackie Collins and Danielle Steele. SCORE! is the second of her Classical Music novels - which dovetails with her Show Jumping series, and feature many of the same characters. The main plot revolves around a concupiscient, aging _enfant terrible_ Italian conductor who is making the "definitive" opera movie of Verdi's DON CARLO. But that's only the plot - all Cooper's novels are filled with dozens of characters and subplots; she never takes anything very seriously, but she does know how to craft the language. Too humorous to be "trashy", too pot-boiling to be "literary", I discovered her Show Jumping series at Heathrow Airport - her novels are very long, but very breezy reads - the perfect books for an 8-hour transAtlantic flight.
Karen
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