Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling books, she lives in Gloucestershire. She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. She was also appointed DBE in 2024 for services to literature and charity.
Jilly has given more pleasure to more girls and women than anyone else alive today... [with her] familiar warmth and irrepressible humour. * The Lady * [Jilly Cooper has a] near-magical ability to conjure up a world and populate it with people for whom you feel a deep affection. * Observer * Her comedies of manners rival Nancy Mitford, if not Jane Austen. * Daily Mail * Jilly Cooper is a national treasure. * Country Life * Jilly is about bringing joy into your life: daft, silly, boozy joy . . . There is no one else like Cooper. * Guardian *