In Jilly Coopers third Rutshire chronicle we meet Ricky France-Lynch who is moody macho & magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate a nine-goal polo handicap & a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita Mac Leod. Perdita couldnt wait to leave her dreary school & become a polo player. The polo set were ritzy wild & gloriously promiscuous. Perdita thought shed get along with them very well. But before she had time to grow up Rickys life exploded into tragedy & Perdita turned into a brat who loved only her horses
- & Ricky France-Lynch. Rickys obsession to win back his wife & Perditas to win both Ricky & a place as a top class polo player take the reader on a wildly exciting journey
- to the estancias of Argentina to Palm Beach & Deauville & on to the royal polo fields of England & 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...