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Between the Covers

Jilly Cooper on sex, socialising and survival

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Between the Covers

By: Jilly Cooper OBE
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‘One truth I have learnt, as middle age enmeshes me like Virginia creeper, is that I shall never change—because my capacity for self-improvement is absolutely nil.’

A classic collection of journalism from the legendary Jilly Cooper. Wonderfully warm and astonishingly acerbic, Jilly’s observations from her days as a much-loved newspaper columnist cover everything on sex, socialising and survival - from marriage and friendship; the minutiae of family life and the tedium of going to visit people for the weekend; to the stress of hosting dinner parties and the descent of middle age.

Entertaining and full of heart, join Jilly Between the Covers to explore the very highs and lows of everyday life.

Praise for Jilly Cooper:
'Joyful and mischievous' Jojo Moyes
'Fun, sexy and unputdownable' Marian Keyes
'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding

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Critic Reviews

What better gift to give for Christmas than this wonderfully irreverent collection of the great Jilly Cooper's columns from the 60s?
No one else can make me laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time, quite like Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper's non-fiction is just as entertaining as her novels
This book has given me so much pleasure
Britain needs this jolly Jilly Cooper collection...Line after line, anecdote after anecdote is laugh-out-loud funny, the prose bouncing along like a labrador puppy
There are so many lifestyle columnists today, you forget that Cooper did it first and did it best
A collection of Jilly Cooper's vintage newspaper columns is bitchy, sexy, insightful and, most of all, great fun
She is simply a legend
This [is an] enjoyable collection of typically candid, irreverent and self-deprecating observations
All stars
Most relevant
Love Jilly Cooper and all her craziness. Please keep writing if you can. This little book is full of charming little stories that make you wish we all still lived in simpler times.

Jilly is Queen

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