Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper OBEis an English author. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 February 1937
eye blow dust
The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.
class people mind
I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.
home soup cabbage
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
simple secret half
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
book writing firefighter
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
kindness thinking years
I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.
office pressure terrible
It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
parent my-own
My own parents loved each other very much.
missing more-time
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
missing more-time
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
book london bigs
I'd never have written the big books in London.
book writing thinking
But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.
home want clock
I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.
beautiful clever men
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.