Jilly Cooper is a journalist, writer and media superstar. The author of many No.1 bestselling novels, she lives in Gloucestershire with her husband Leo, her rescue greyhound Feather and her black cat Feral.
She was appointed OBE in 2004 for services to literature, and in 2009 was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Gloucestershire for her contribution to literature and services to the County.
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August 2011:
Yet again – I am so sorry I’ve totally failed to keep up my website. No excuse – except I seem to have been endlessly frantic. In December 2010, for example, I had to mug up on the great cookery writer Mrs Beeton for a television programme presented by Sophie Dahl. I had no idea Mrs Beeton was the step daughter of the Clerk of the Course at Epsom, and lived in the grandstand where she was often left in charge of 21 siblings, after which producing Household Management must have been a doddle...
