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  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409032434
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1008

Wicked!

The deliciously irreverent new chapter of The Rutshire Chronicles by Sunday Times bestselling author Jilly Cooper




Two schools - both in leafy Larkshire, but worlds apart. The incomparable Jilly Cooper turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education.

A tale of two schools...

At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'.

His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Janna is young, pretty, enthusiastic and vastly brave - and she will do anything to rescue her demoralised, run-down and cash-strapped school.

Neither parents nor staff of either school are too keen on this radical move, although some can see the possible financial advantages. For the students, however, it offers great opportunities to get up to even more mayhem than usual.

  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409032434
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1008

About the author

Jilly Cooper

Jilly Cooper was a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling books, she lived in Gloucestershire where her groundbreaking Rutshire Chronicles series was set.

Awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, she also won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019, and was appointed DBE in 2024 for services to literature and charity. She died in 2025.

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Praise for Wicked!

A great summer read

Daily Express

An absolute joy

In Dublin

Hilarious, heart warming and intensely moving

Yorkshire Post

Hugely gratifying in the way that only Cooper can be

Mail on Sunday

My reading of Jilly Cooper's Wicked! was not guiltily pleasurable - it was just pleasurable... a brilliantly refreshing read

Polly Vernon, Observer

Simply enjoy the wicked pleasures Cooper does so well

The Observer

The perfect beach companion

Daily Mail

The perfect summer read... with Cooper's trademark puns, a massive cast and lots of sex - it's a winner

Daily Express