Rutshire Chronicles Series (Book 5-8) By Jilly Cooper: 4 Books Collection Set - Fiction - Paperback

Titles in this set:

1. Appassionata!
2. Score!
3. Pandora!
4. Wicked!

Description

Appassionata

Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and most exploited girl in the world. After a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she aimed for the male-dominated heights of the conductor's rostrum. Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic, unaware that the RSO is deeply in debt and composed of the wildest musicians ever to blow a horn or caress a fiddle. As she struggles to control her undisciplined ensemble, she finds herself madly attracted to the glamorous horn player, Viking O'Neill, who claims droit de seigneur over every pretty woman in the orchestra. Meanwhile, Rannaldini, the arch-fiend and international maestro, arrives with Machiavellian plans to sabotage the RSO.

Score

Sir Robert Rannaldini, the most successful yet detested conductor in the world, has two ambitions: to seduce his ravishing nineteen-year-old stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to make the definitive film of Verdi's darkest opera, Don Carlos. As Rannaldini, his charismatic French director Tristan, and a volatile cast gather at Rannaldini's haunted abbey for filming, violent feuds, abandoned romances, and devious plotting ensue. But when Rannaldini is murdered, bizarre occurrences continue to unfold.

Pandora

No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by young lieutenant Raymond Kelvedon in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she cast her spell over his family of artists for fifty years. Hanging in their Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's tempestuous wife Galena entertain lovers and give birth to four children: Jupiter, Alizarin, Jonathan, and superbrat Sienna. When a stranger claims to be a long-lost daughter, the Belvedon brothers clash. Accompanied by her glamorous boyfriend, whose agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael, the painting is stolen during a fireworks party. The thrilling hunt to retrieve it takes readers to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York, and London, culminating in a nail-biting court case and a record-smashing Old Masters sale at Sotheby's, where passionate love triumphs and Pandora is restored to her rightful home.

Wicked

A tale of two schools... At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild yet increasingly academic independent school filled with the children of the famous, trouble brews. The ambitious headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, plans to share facilities with Larkminster Comprehensive, known as 'Larks'. His reasons are financial, but he is also drawn to Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who is determined to save her cash-strapped school. While parents and staff are skeptical of this radical move, students see it as an opportunity for even more mayhem.