Octavia: a light-hearted, hilarious and gorgeous novel from the inimitable multimillion-copy bestselling Jilly Cooper
By (Author) Jilly Cooper
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Corgi Books
1st July 2005
22nd April 2005
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
823.914
Paperback
272
Width 128mm, Height 197mm, Spine 16mm
190g
As soon as Octavia caught a glimpse of Jeremy in the nightclub, she knew she just had to have him. It didn't matter that he'd just got engaged to an old school friend of hers, plump, good natured Gussie; he was looking at Octavia in the way that suggested bed rather than breakfast, and she was weak at the knees...But Octavia was used to men falling in love with her at a moment's notice - it happened all the time if you were as rich and as stunning as she was. An invitation to join Gussie and Jeremy for a cozy weekend on a canal barge came like a gift from the gods. How could she fail to hook Jeremy But the other part of the foursome was whizz-kid business tycoon Gareth Llewellyn, a swarthy Welshman with all the tenderness of a scrum-half...definitely not Octavia's type! And one way and another, he certainly managed to thwart her plans...
The Jane Austen of our time * Harpers and Queen *
Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling novels, she lives in Gloucestershire with her rescue racing greyhound, Bluebell. She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. She was appointed CBE in 2018 for services to literature and charity.