Polo cover

Published: 1991

#3 in the series

Polo

We meet Ricky France-Lynch, who is moody, macho, and magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book.

He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod. Perdita couldn’t wait to leave her dreary school and become a polo player. The polo set were ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous.Perdita thought she’d get along with them very well.

But before she had time to grow up, Ricky’s life exploded into tragedy, and Perdita turned into a brat who loved only her horses – and Ricky France-Lynch. Ricky’s obsession to win back his wife, and Perdita’s to win both Ricky and a place as a top class polo player, take the reader on a wildly exciting journey – to the estancias of Argentina, to Palm Beach and Deauville, and on to the royal polo fields of England and the glamorous pitches of California where the most heroic battle of all is destined to be fought – a match that is about far more than just the winning of a huge silver cup…

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Compulsively readable and funny...the irrepressible Jilly remains irresistible

The Times

Polo is the best thing she’s ever done

Daily Mail

A work of towering genius

Evening Standard

The world of smart women, handsome army officers, romantic school girls, lustful grooms, insecure wives... they have fire in their bellies (and generally in their groins too) and a massive appetite for life

Nicholas Coleridge, The Sunday Times

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Great fun, I found it difficult to put down

Suze

I will definitely read the novel again as so much happens in it, it is definitely worth a second turn!

Jeeds

I love her honesty and humour.

Chrissie