The late Dame Jilly Cooper has been remembered as a literary legend by the cast of Rivals, the award-winning TV series based on her best-selling novel of the same name.
Cooper, who died on Sunday 5 October after a fall aged 88, is one of the UK’s most celebrated authors, best known for her risque fiction focusing on the scandalous lives of the British elite in the Eighties and Nineties. She wrote Rivals in 1988, the second book in her Rutshire Chronicles series, which depicts the sordid ongoings in a power struggle between two television companies in the Cotswolds.
