Jilly cooper author biography outlines

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The Common Years

During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the changing seasons and writing about her encounters with dogs and humans. The book is a distillation of those diaries- an affectionate and enthralling portrait - warts and all - of life on Putney Common. Never has Jilly Cooper written more lyrically about flowers, trees, birds and the natural world; more tellingly about the sorrows - as well as the joys - of caring for dogs and children; or more outrageously about the gossip, illicit romances and jealousies of life in a small community.

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Jilly Cooper

Riders (Rutshire Chronicles, #1)

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Rivals (Rutshire Chronicles #2)

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Polo (Rutshire Chronicles #3)

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The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (Rutshire Chronicles, #4)

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Mount! (Rutshire Chronicles #10)

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Jump! (Rutshire Chronicles, #9)

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Appassionata (Rutshire Chronicles #5)

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Score! (Rutshire Chronicles, #6)

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Wicked! (Rutshire Chronicles #8)

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Jilly Cooper

English author (born )

For the badminton player, see Jillie Cooper.

Dame Jilly Cooper, DBE (born Jill Sallitt; 21 February ) is 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 Cooper is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles.

Early life

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Jill Sallitt was born in Hornchurch, Essex, England on 21 February ,^[1] to Mary Elaine (née Whincup) and Brigadier W. B. Sallitt, OBE.^[3] She grew up in Ilkley and Surrey, and was educated at the Moorfield School in Ilkley and the Godolphin School in Salisbury.^[3]

Journalism and non-fiction

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After unsuccessfully trying to begin a career in the British national press, Cooper became a junior reporter for The Middlesex Independent, based in Brentford. She worked for the paper from to Subsequently, she worked as an account executive, copywriter, publisher