The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

By: Jilly Cooper

Narrated by: Sherry Baines

Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's Summary

Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts. He couldn't pass a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue, which invariably led to ecstatic bonking, which didn't please their erring husbands one bit. Let loose among the neglected wives of the ritzy county of Rutshire, Lysander causes absolute havoc. 

But it is only when he meets Rannaldini, Rutshire's King Rat and a temperamental, fiendishly promiscuous international conductor, that the trouble really starts.... 

©1993 Jilly Cooper (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd

Brilliant performance and story

After being very disappointed with the narration on recent Jilly Cooper releases, I am delighted that they have chosen this person to do the job. No silly accents or drawn out pauses. I felt it was read as I would read it myself. Just ordered the next book in the series, and really looking forward to it. Thank you 😀

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Fabulous story one of my faves ruined by the narrator

I adored this book the first time I read it years ago as I adore Jilly's books she is a wonderful author. But goodness me i could barely bear to listen to it and had to really grit my teeth through every word except her accents. Her inflections are atrocious, rising in all the wrong places it's infuriating. I'm compelled to finish it when what I want to do is grrrrrr! Imagine my disappointment to just find out how many of Jilly's books she's narrated. I'm really annoyed and quite sad. They are ruined for me. I'm sure if Jilly heard how she's butchering the narration she would step in. Sorry for the poor review. 5 stars every time for every
Jilly book especially this one, but 0 for the narration.

A cracking good listen!

I've read the book but thoroughly enjoyed the audio version. Recommend this for a light hearted listen and you can pick the story up easily in between listening.

The best and funniest of Jilly's many chronicles

My 4 favourite JC books are the first 4 of Jilly's Rupert Campbell Black sagas which also happen to be the first 4 of this particular series. This one is my favourite of them all. Peppered with hysterical one liners, this is a mega write, seriously funny, thoroughly entertaining and with characters you both love and hate and as you should and as intended. It has a lovely ending too and just very endearing hero and heroine in Lysander and Kitty. It's pure fantasy of course but wonderful to lose yourself in when real life just becomes unbearable which it frequently does and especially as Winter draws in. I don't know why anyone would not enjoy this book. It has everything a good book should have, a happy ending, lots of characters both male and female, wonderful animals, glamorous settings, rich people, affluent lifestyles as well as some eco and green ones, a fantastically funny nativity and is just as delicious as a hot chocolate after a bubble bath in winter. If you love horses and Polo as I do there is some of that and some glorious equines included and all as an added bonus as well. Thoroughly recommended.

Suspend belief - it's ludicrous, but it's such fun

Like so many, I've loved Jilly's Rutshire Chronicles since Riders was first published, more years ago than I care to remember. This one is probably the daftest in the stable, but that doesn't mean it isn't really enjoyable. The basic premise that anyone, however rich, would spend Thousands of pounds employing a handsome, not that bright, young man to hang around just to make their husbands jealous? On some planets, maybe. Personally, if the husband's taking that many liberties, I'd rather spend the money on a good lawyer to get shot of him...
But we aren't meant to take the Rutshire Chronicles seriously. Dickens it ain't. This is Jilly world, where we can all retreat when the real world gets bit difficult, and wallow in some great characters, dreadful puns and happy endings, and as always some of the nicest characters that we grow to love the most are those who are not beautiful, gifted or rich. They are like Kitty, overweight, overworked, kind and generous, or Ferdie, forever fixing, wheeling and dealing, always the good and loyal friend but never the hero.Jilly always makes the misfits the most lovable, and in this case Lysander himself is no exception.
So many great characters in this book, Marigold, Larry, Georgie and Guy, Flora, the ghastly Hermione with her lovely husband Bob - the list goes on. And as with every book in the series, Rupert and Taggie appear as well. It simply wouldn't be Rutshire without them.
Listen for yourself, because it may be ludicrous, but as Patricia Hodge in Miranda would have said - it's such fun!

Bravo to Billy<br />

I absolutely love it. we all need a lysander in our lives. best one so far