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Appassionata (Paperback)

by Jilly Cooper (Author)
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Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest -- although madly attracted to the fatally glamorous horn player, Viking O’Neill.


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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. She also 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 girl 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 not only brings back old favourites 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.

Appassionata - the most swooningly romantic and heartwarming novel of the year. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Jilly Cooper's best ever!, Jun 25 2003
By "joansgoodbooks" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Appassionata (Hardcover)
I LOVED this book and laughed all the way through! I have no musical talent, but I wanted to run away and join this mad, mad but very lovable underdog orchestra!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Appassionata, May 10 2003
This review is from: Appassionata (Paperback)
Like other reviewers, I've read all of Jilly's books (I think that 'Polo' is the most entertaining). I had to laugh at the Californian reviewer's idea that Cooper's English readership would be 'shocked' at her satirical look at the social pretensions of upper-class (and nouveau riche) Brits. In fact, Cooper's earthy humour is typical of what you would find in the UK - just read one of our tabloid newspapers . I'm surprised though that Cooper's humour crosses the Atlantic successfully, as it is so particularly English.

Appassionata isn't Cooper's best novel, possibly because Abigail Rosen is not a particularly sympathetic heroine. In addition, I found it difficult to believe that orchestral musicians lead lives of such wild debauchery - all the ones that I've met wear their hair in a bun and no make-up. Anyway, I suppose the plot isn't the point of Jilly's books, what entertains instead is the witty commentary and detailed character delineations (and asassinations).

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3.0 out of 5 stars I love you normally Jilly but...., Dec 18 2000
This review is from: Appassionata (Paperback)
Oh Jilly - I just love most of your books - but the last three in the series you have done on Campbell-Black and co I just haven't enjoyed as much. This is the fifth book in the series which started with Rivals. As usual Cooper focuses on a single theme and a big crowning event - in this case orchestras and a big competition which Rupert Campbell-Black's son, Marcus is competing in. Against him is the heroine of this novel - Abigail Rosen also known as Appassionata.

Perhaps it is just me, but I don't much like Rannaldini. He appeared in the Cooper's last book - The Man Who Made Husband's Jealous - he is the bad-guy of the piece, but I find him horrible. Normally with Cooper the bad guys and the good guys are fairly ambiguous - you can certainly like most of the bad-guys but Rannaldini is just evil on two legs. I hope I'm not spoiling anyone's fun by telling you all that Ranaldini finally gets killed off in the next book - Score! - but in the meantime I feel like he lurks with a bit too much sinister pleasure through these pages.

Unfortunately Cooper has got me hooked on the series, so every time one of her books comes out it is a must read for me. The first three novels in this series (Riders, Rivals and Polo) were simply bliss - and I loved her earlier books (Harriet, Imogen &c.) If you haven't read Cooper before then you should read her earlier books. If you have read them - well you will probably want to find out what happens next - and the book isn't bad - its just not as good as her past efforts.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and funny
I was actually given this book on loan by my GRANDMOTHER who thought that I would enjoy it since I am a classical musician-wannabe. Read more
Published on Aug 22 2000 by raven dancer

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent cooper
I'm a long, long, long time fan of jilly cooper (from her first romance novels of emily, harriet, imogen, bella, lisa and co), and have read all the previous marathon novels... Read more
Published on May 23 2000

3.0 out of 5 stars J.Cooper:Appassinata
I am just reading this title. The story is interesting but I never read book with a lot of spelling mistakes on each page!
Published on April 18 2000 by vbostik@hotmail.com

3.0 out of 5 stars J.Cooper:Appassinata
I am just reading this title. The story is interesting but I never read book with a lot of spelling mistakes on each page!
Published on April 18 2000 by vbostik@hotmail.com

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun shop talk; Jilly's stock characters in a new setting
This is a fun book and a page turner. There's lots of interesting information about symphony orchestra musicians. Read more
Published on Feb 8 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Jilly Cooper
This book is excellent! I'm a horse lover and first found Jilly Cooper's "Riders" on a trip to the UK. Read more
Published on Dec 14 1999 by Anne Cahill

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Another excellent Jilly Cooper, the only reason I didn't give it five stars is that I didn't particularly like the main character, Abigail Rosen, and the book as a whole was not... Read more
Published on Dec 14 1999 by Catherine

5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastically fun read, especially for musicians!
I think by the time we finished passing it around, every girl in the music department at my university had read it. Read more
Published on Nov 24 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
I first discovered the "Rutshire Chronicles" of Jilly Cooper while studying in Scotland. This fifth volume in the series is just as witty, fast-paced, and hilarious as... Read more
Published on April 14 1999

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