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Etta Has To Leave The Beautiful House She Has Shared With Her Husband To Live In A Hideous Bungalow In The Village Of Willowwood, Where Strained Circumstances Cause Her To Be At The Beck And Call Of Her Grown-up Children And Their Horrendous Brats. Without A Husband, Friends Or The Home She Loved, Etta's Life Seems Bleak Until One Night She Comes Across A Terrified, Horribly Injured Horse Abandoned In The Wood. Etta Takes The Horse Home And Tends Her Wounds, And As The Horse Recovers She Proves Herself To Be A Massively Talented Steeplechaser.... Jilly Cooper. Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome, high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Etta's selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset home to live in a hideous modern bungalow in the Cotswold village of Willowwood.