Rutshire Chronicles

The Rutshire Chronicles is a series of romantic novels by Dame Jilly Cooper. The stories tell tales of mainly British upper-class families, as well as the show-jumping and polo crowd, in numerous different sexually charged scenarios, often laced with adultery, illegitimate children, scandal, and sometimes death. They are linked by several recurring characters, chiefly Rupert Campbell-Black, and are set in the fictional English county of Rutshire.

Some of these characters, namely Campbell-Black and numerous characters associated with him, also occur in Cooper's novel Pandora, although it is not part of the series^{[citation needed]}. The Campbell-Blacks, Lloyd-Foxes, France-Lynches, and other families from the Rutshire Chronicles also appear in Wicked! (2006). The tales are set in chronological order; however, they are readable as stand-alone novels.^{[citation needed]}

In more recent years,^[when?] her Rutshire Chronicles have come under fire for dated and problematic portrayals of race, homosexuality, gender roles and sexual consent.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cooper's recent works^[which?] received a variety of responses from critics, with Olivia Laing in The Guardian praising "her near-magical ability to conjure up a world and populate it with people for whom you feel a deep affection"^[4] and The Express calling Jump! "one of her most captivating novels yet."^[5]^{[unreliable source?]}

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Rutshire Chronicles

The Rutshire Chronicles

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