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
hurt revenge people
hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.
girl people choices
People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried ...
used cooks dazzling
Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.
book writing people
People who can write a book usually do.
jobs work training
Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.
years ideas bored
it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.
morning fighting finding-yourself
in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.
men age six
Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.
grandmother ready persons
And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.
missing more-time
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
parent my-own
My own parents loved each other very much.
men attractive
There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.
office pressure terrible
It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
kindness thinking years
I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.