Octavia: A light-hearted and hilarious romcom from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals

Jilly Cooper

Dec 2010 · Random House

About this ebook

The unmissable romcom from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals, now a major series on Disney+

'Absolutely brilliant' 5 STAR reader review
'Such good fun!' 5 STAR reader review
'I couldn't put it down . . . one of the best books I've read!' 5 STAR reader review

As soon as Octavia catches a glimpse of Jeremy in the nightclub, she knows she just has to have him. It doesn't matter that he's just got engaged to an old school friend of hers: good-natured Gussie. His look suggested bed rather than breakfast, and made her weak at the knees...

Rich and stunning, Octavia is used to men falling in love with her at a moment's notice and an invitation to join Gussie and Jeremy for a cozy weekend on a canal barge comes like a gift from the gods. How can she fail to hook Jeremy?

But the other part of the foursome is 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 manages to thwart her plans...
'There is no one else like Cooper' Guardian
'The Jane Austen of our time' HARPERS & QUEEN
'The funniest and sharpest writer there is' Jenny Colgan
'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding

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Ratings and reviews

I first read this as a weekly in the Petticoat magazine way back in the seventies, when it was called October Brennan. I never ever forgot it, so was really happy to find it again. I loved it then and after reading it again, I still love it.

Immerse yourself in the romantic world of Jilly Cooper

About the author

Jilly Cooper is a well-known journalist, writer and media superstar, and is the author of many number one bestselling novels, including Riders, Rivals, Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, Appassionata, Score!, Pandora and Wicked.

Jilly and her husband live in Gloucestershire. She was appointed OBE for services to literature in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List.