Rivals by Jilly Cooper

<p>In the 1980s, there was nothing like a good old-fashioned bonkbuster to brighten up your bookcases. With their somewhat stylised but garish covers that declared them to be the sort of book you would probably blush when telling your granny about. As well as the handsome but rakish main characters, they sold in their hundreds of thousands. Jilly Cooper was the Queen of Bonkbusters, famous for the heartless but too-beautiful-to-exist Rupert Campbell-Black who broke hearts all over the world. Rivals was released at the tail-end of the 1980s, but everything about it from the cover to the characters and the situations they find themselves in screams 'this is a 1980s book'. Despite that, Disney has now purchased the rights and is making it into an 8-part mini-series. So...what did I think on this re-read 15 years in the making? How will a mini-series based on a book that is all about the bedroom work on a network like Disney? Find out in the first episode of Season 6 of Being Bookish. </p><p>Don't forget, sign up for my newsletter <a href="https://bit.ly/3iqHdAk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> </p><p>The Being Bookish Bookclub book for January is Circe by Madeline Miller. <a href="mailto: notbeforecoffeepodcast@gmail.com?subject=Bookclub" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get in touch</a> to find out more. </p>