Etta Bancroft -- sweet, kind, still beautiful -- adores racing and
harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed
owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband
dies, Etta's selfish, ambitious son and daughter drag her from her
lovely Dorset house to live in a hideous modern bungalow in the
Cotswold village of Willowwood.
Etta's life changes when, in the snow in the nearby woods, she
finds a horribly mutilated filly, which she names Mrs Wilkinson and
nurses back to health. The filly charms everyone in the village,
then tests reveal her to be a spectacularly well-bred racehorse.
After a nail-biting court case, Mrs Wilkinson is awarded to Etta,
thus ensuring the lasting and vengeful enmity of her evil former
trainer and owner. A village syndicate is formed to put the filly
into training, consisting of a riotous mix of village characters,
who set off to the races in a minibus clanking with bottles.
Ridden by Rupert's delectable god-daughter, Amber, Mrs Wilkinson
captivates vast crowds as she progresses from point-to-point races
to major races and brings fame and fortune to the syndicate, until,
at last, she is entered in the Grand National. Can she be the first
mare in thirty years, and Amber the first woman ever, to conquer
this mighty race?
In Jump you will meet rich capricious owners, obsessive trainers
and gallant stable lads and lasses; you will get to know the tough,
brave jockeys; and you will fall in love with the horses, and above
all with Mrs Wilkinson herself -- hilarious, heroic and so gutsy
she will gallop into your heart forever.
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