Appassionata: A masterpiece of sex and drama from the Sunday Times bestseller Jilly Cooper

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Aidan Turner plays TV presenter Declan O’Hara, who’s wooed toCoriniumTV from the BBC byBaddinghamhimself, but feels he’s been swindled and vows to get his revenge. Rivals is part of Jilly Cooper’s racy 10-book 'Rutshire Chronicles’ series which follows members of England’s power-grabbing social elite as they fall in and out of bed with each other and fight tooth and nail to get ahead. Sexually, Jilly Cooper's world is an idyll. No one is frigid, no one has difficulties in bed. Mutuality of orgasm is a given. There are no venereal diseases, and rarely any talk of contraception. Pregnancies, which seldom happen, are always OK when they do, if only because that introduces a potential new orgiaste into the scenario in 16 years' time.

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RIvals author Jilly Cooper meeting Camilla at the Cheltenham race festival. (Image credit: Getty) Is there a trailer for Rivals? During a recent interview with us Aidan revealed more about his Rivals role: "I look like I’m from circa 1975 but it’s for Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, which I’m filming until October. I hadn’t read Rivals before. It seems very British so it wasn’t really on my radar, but it’s really fun. But after we wrap the tache is definitely going to go and I’m going to take a break – I’d love a big holiday!" Claire Rushbrook as Cathy Rowley in Sherwood. (Image credit: BBC/House Productions/Matt Squire) Who else is starring in Rivals?In addition Aidan also told The Times in a recent interview: “We have so much sex on our show, we have to have two intimacy coaches. Two! Meanwhile, NafessaWilliams ( Whitney Houston: IWannaDance with Somebody) plays Cameron Cook,a ferociously talented American TV executive, who’s brought toCoriniumby Tony to produce Declan’s newprime-timetalk show.

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Sex, money, power: it sounds a simple enough recipe. It is. And it's one which Cooper has deployed with almost no variation over the course of seven bestselling, bonkbusting novels. Fair enough - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. About the only thing that has changed between books, indeed, is the milieu. For each new novel, Cooper has selected a differently glamorous world in which her stories can unfurl. Thus Riders was set in showjumping, Rivals in TV, Appassionata and Score! in classical music, and so on.In Rivals. Alex Hassell plays the rakish and dangerously charismatic ex-Olympian and Tory MP. He’s had roles in The Boys, Silent Witness , The Miniaturist and was Metatron in His Dark Materials.