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

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Riders at age 13 or thereabouts - I would not have been nearly so worried had she been reading Tackle! This book felt a lot shorter than Jilly’s other novels, and it lacked the weaving together of lots of different story threads. Maybe Rugby could be the theme of the next novel Jilly, all those hulking, heroic players and nail biting Rugby World Cup finals?

For five decades, she has produced gripping stories with exciting multi-layered plots and characters worth investing in. As Searston's new owner, he won't stand for anything less than victory in the Premier League, despite the odds being stacked against him.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

One imagines that the sensitivity readers, if indeed they existed, were in the end just as frustrated by Cooper as her supposedly sex-fixated editors – though if this was the case, I can’t sympathise at all. Her most famous and enduring protagonist, Rupert Campbell-Black (showjumper, Tory MP, and “handsomest man in the world”, according to the blurb on Tackle! I'm not sure if she's actually ever attended matches, but I'm pretty certain the chants and songs from the terraces wouldn't include words like "ghastly bore" and "asunder. Plenty of Cooper’s novels feature sexism which would outrage young readers today and make their older counterparts, like me, balk when considered through a 2023 prism. See also pompous suggestions that they’re just ‘guilty pleasures’ – nothing more than ironic peccadilloes.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'. To use words Cooper would doubtless scorn at as PC abominations (she has said she misses wolf whistling and that modern men are “always crying” and “growing beards”), many of her heroes and plots are 'problematic' and possibly 'triggering' for today’s audiences. I’d been feeling sad that this might be the last of Cooper’s novels, but this is an absolute stinker. will get involved with a struggling football team and, despite the odds, will lead them to some kind of sporting triumph.