Tackle!: Let the sabotage and scandals begin in the new instant Sunday Times bestseller

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Normally there are many characheter backgrounds and situtions happening and they become interwoven throughout the book and with other characters. Literary snobs have long dismissed Cooper’s novels as ‘chick lit’ and ‘bonkbusters’ written for silly, frilly, frivolous ladies. Jilly has been a long-time favourite author and I had been looking forward to reading her new one ever since I had first picked up on its 'genesis'. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. This book felt a lot shorter than Jilly’s other novels, and it lacked the weaving together of lots of different story threads.

The author has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019.It’s true that Cooper has always championed women’s desire – no one has a better time in bed than her heroines. has its usual plethora of dastardly devils and bullying bastards, but in Cooper’s world she usually ensures they ultimately lose out to the devoted and darling ones, with kindness and empathy. My reading tastes have moved on over the years, but this book brought my love for the series flooding back. I think the books accurately reflect the time they were written in, but they also put female pleasure front and centre of any romantic entanglement,” she says. Cooper, who is based in Gloucestershire, said: “Footballers bring such joy and excitement to the world.

And yes, the mind does rather boggle at the thought of 86-year-old Cooper having to balance the impatient demands of both. There were a couple of players I really took to my heart like Griffy who has a nightmare wife and the young and naive Wifie. Eventually, though, he’s defeated by sheer cashflow – football is impossibly expensive, even once you’ve sacked Gemini Coates, your club’s left-leaning mental health coach (Campbell-Black doesn’t believe in mental health) – and he has to get a loan from Genghis Tong, “a millionaire aeroplane manufacturer from Hong Kong… whose sweet son Bao had done work experience in the [livery] yard a year ago”. Critics might say she’s silly, sexist, and hardly Chaucer, but I say making women feel seen, hopeful, and happy takes a rare sort of genius.For all the ridiculous euphemisms about “otters diving into summer streams” and “leaning towers of pleasure”, Cooper is a master at serving relatability, long before it was an Instagram personality trait.