In Jilly Cooper's third Rutshire chronicle, we meet Ricky France-Lynch, who is moody, macho, and magnificent. He owns a large crumbling estate, holds a nine-goal polo handicap, and has a beautiful wife who is fair game for anyone with a cheque book. Additionally, he has the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod.

Perdita can't wait to leave her dreary school and become a polo player. The polo set is ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous. Perdita thinks she'll get along with them very well.

But before she has time to grow up, Ricky's life explodes into tragedy, and Perdita turns into a brat who loves only her horses—and Ricky France-Lynch.

Ricky's obsession to win back his wife, and Perdita's to win both Ricky and a place as a top-class polo player, take the reader on a wildly exciting journey—to the estancias of Argentina, to Palm Beach and Deauville, and on to the royal polo fields of England and the glamorous pitches of California. There, 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.