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Evening Standard
Laura Harding

Dame Jilly Cooper ‘changed the way we read books as women’ – Angela Rippon

Jilly Cooper died aged 88 (Lucy Ray/PA) - (PA Wire)

Dame Jilly Cooper was “a great people watcher” who changed the way “we read books as women”, according to her friend Angela Rippon.

The author, known as “queen of the bonkbuster” for her Rutshire Chronicles books including Riders, Polo and Rivals, died aged 88 on Sunday after a fall.

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