Appassionata: The most fun you can have under a Tenor
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The most fun you can have under a Tenor…
Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world. When a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the male-dominated heights of the conductor’s rostrum.
Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic, not realising the RSO is in hock up to its neck and is composed of the wildest bunch of musicians ever to blow a horn or caress a fiddle. Abby finds it increasingly difficult to control her undisciplined rabble and pretend she is not madly attracted to the fatally glamorous horn player, Viking O’Neill, who claims droit de seigneur over every pretty woman joining the orchestra. And then Rannaldini, arch-fiend and international maestro, rolls up with Machiavellian plans of his own to sabotage the RSO.
Effervescent as champagne, Jilly Cooper’s novel brings back old favourites like Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black, but also ends triumphantly with a rampageous orchestral tour of Spain and the high drama of an international piano competition.
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Praise for Appassionata:
‘Delicious … I could not put the damned thing down’ Sunday Express
‘A boisterous tale of sex and Chopin’ Tatler
‘Sexy, dazzling protagonists… the humour comes thick and fast’ Daily Express
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Additional information
| Publisher | Transworld Digital (23 Dec. 2010) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 5171 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 896 pages |
by Nicki Evans
I recently read Pandora and caught the Jilly bug remembering early books I enjoyed in my late teens however Appassioanta just goes on a bit and i haven’t been captivated by the story. I always try to read a book to its end and just managed this one. Its an easy read for someone but not for me maybe it was the subject matter to be fair. I think I’ll re-read Riders!
by charlotte
Loved this book so much, I took up piano afterwards! Jilly always delivers well written, steamy, funny and poetic story telling, into the lives of the rich and successful, as you follow their stories you can’t help but love the characters, and want to keep reading to find out what happens next! Couldn’t put it down. I love her books, and how she links all our favourite characters into new ones and weaves such well thought out stories, another brilliant book by my accounts. Loved it.
by jane
Hadn’t read Jilly Cooper for many years but quickly found myself transported back to the 80’s revelling in the age old feud between Ranaldini and Rupert Campbell-Black! Wonderful tale of parents and children, deceit and love conquering all!
by Lynny
I’m re-reading all of Gilly Coopers riders books and love them all.
I prefer having these on my phone nowadays because I can read in bed with the light off and my husband can sleep.
by Stacey39
Fun read, enjoyed it like I have all the Jilly Cooper books in this series
by Amazon Customer
i have the complete collection in paperback along with many other authors and series, so my husband bought me a kindle and i bought the whole collection again!! i love the characters especially R C-B and Declan O Hara and thry pop up in many of the follow-up books, though each book tells a whole new story with new lovable characters.
by Mr. Alastair Brown
Just finished “Appassionata” which from memory I’ve read before many, many years ago.
Did I enjoy it? Yes. Is it a good book? – I’d have to say no but it’s very typical of Jilly Cooper and you know what you are going to get.
Basically, the book has no structure whatsoever. Did Jilly have a plot line when she started writing this book? You wouldn’t think so. The story just dribbles along with absolutely no meaningful direction and frankly over eight hundred pages very little happens. As with all Jilly Cooper novels the book could be halved in length and nothing at all would be lost in that process. If I had to summarise the plot I think I could do it in a couple of paragraphs. The final say forty pages are reasonably exciting but that’s it.
As ever there are far, far too many characters in the novel. I read it on my Kindle which makes it difficult to go back to the list of characters at the beginning. Most characters are caricatures or highly forgettable so you inevitably struggle to remember who is who. It’s all a bit like a Beryl Cook painting become a novel.
And the beginning! – Rupert Campbell-Black and Taggie, his incredible wimp of a wife, go to Bogata in Columbia to adopt a child (or two). And then neither of those characters appear until the end of the book – Taggie (thank goodness) never appears again. So what has this beginning episode got to do with the rest of the plot? Answer = nothing!
So if you you were marking this book out of ten then I guess it’s a poor two.
But the thing is – despite its myriad faults I enjoyed it. Not sure why but that’s her magic!!
by Rock Goddess
Not a bad read. Characters are well know to us all that read Jilly Cooper. There were some funny moments but very much a predictable read. May be we need a new set of characters now rather than playing it safe.