Book description
After going to live in the country Jilly Cooper wrote regularly for
the Mail on Sunday for several years and this is a selection of
her best pieces written at that time. The topics she covers in her
inimitable style range from the hunt balls and Henley to love and sex
in the ages of AIDS.
She interviews Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, Lord Hailsham, the
cast of Eastenders and the proprietress of a famous brothel in
the Nevada desert and writes about her fellow human beings and their
foibles provocatively, affectionately and sometimes outrageously. Her
portraits of family life in the Cooper household remain the most
ruthless and hilarious of all.
Jilly Cooper comes from Yorkshire and was educated at Godolphin
School in Sailsbury. For twenty-five years she lived in London and for
thirteen of them she wrote for the
Sunday Times,
during which time her column was one of the most widely read features in
the paper. In 1982 she moved to Gloucestershire and began writing a
column for the
Mail on Sunday
. She makes frequent appearances on television and has done many radio
broadcasts.
