Score! - Couverture rigide

Cooper, Jilly

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0593042263 ISBN 13 : 9780593042267

Editeur : Bantam Press, 1999

Synopsis

Jilly Cooper's latest story is about loneliness in high places, and heroism and passionate love triumphing against the odds. Sir Robert Rannaldini has two ambitions: first, to seduce Tabitha and second to conduct Don Carlos, Verdi's darkest opera. Rannaldini is writing his memoirs, and from that moment his fate is sealed.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Sir Robert Rannaldini, the most successful but most detested conductor in the world, has two ambitions: first, to seduce Tabitha, the ravishing nineteen-year-old daughter of his arch-rival, Rupert Campbell-Black; second, to make the definitive film of Don Carlos, Verdi's darkest opera.

To this end he enlists the help of his charismatic French godson, Tristan de Montigny, the hottest director in Europe, who is capable of coaxing magical performances out of the most wayward and wooden prima donnas. As Rannaldini, Tristan and the entire cast insist on artistic control the recording is stormy. But this is as nothing to the ructions that occur when filming begins in Rannaldini's haunted fourteenth-century abbey.

Disgruntled spooks, temperamental singers and histrionic set designers are now joined by a bolshy French film crew, determined to pull everything in sight, particularly the tempestuous Tabitha, while all the women - and several of the men - are determined to bed Tristan. To their disappointment, he is only interested in keeping the movie on track - until he finds himself increasingly attracted to Tabitha, which Rannaldini will not tolerate. Then the news leaks out that Rannaldini is writing his memoirs, revealing dreadful secrets about everyone, and from that moment his fate is sealed.

Terrifyingly creepy and wonderfully mysterious, by turns wildly funny and unashamedly romantic, SCORE! is a thrilling novel. It is also a story about loneliness in high places, and heroism and passionate love triumphing against the odds.

Quatrième de couverture

'Romance, glamour, seismic sex and delightful comedy...this book is a slice of heaven: pure, blissful escapism'

Kate Saunders, New Statesman

Sir Robert Rannaldini, the most successful but detested conductor in the world, had two ambitions: to seduce his ravishing nineteen-year-old stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the definitive film of Verdi's darkest opera, Don Carlos.

As Rannaldini, Tristan, his charismatic French director, a volatile cast and bolshy French crew gather at Rannaldini's haunted abbey for filming, it is inevitable that violent feuds, abandoned bonking, temperamental screaming, and devious plotting will ensue. But although everyone wished Rannaldini dead, no one actually thought the Maestro would be murdered. Or that after the dreadful deed some very bizarre things would continue to occur.

SCORE! is Jilly Cooper's most thrilling novel to date.

'I drew back in some alarm when told on its jacket that Score! was wildly funny, unashamedly romantic, terrifyingly creepy. I pressed bravely on nonetheless, and found with surprise that Score! is indeed all these things and even more'

John Bayley, The Spectator

'Absolutely wonderful, such fun and so busy and gossipy'

Penny Vincenzi

'A deliciously funny, lusty, riproaring read with the added dimension of suspense and murder'

Good Housekeeping

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593042263
• ISBN 13: 9780593042267
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible