British novelist Jilly Cooper, a successful author of the novels sprinkled with eroticism, one had recently been adapted in series, died at 88, her family and her agent said on Monday.
The author, famous throughout the channel for her series “Rutshire Chronicles”, died on Sunday morning after a fall, “they said in a statement.
In addition to the 50 years of career, Jilly Cooper had written many novels, with evocative titles, such as Tackle! (Tackle, in French) or Score!, They have sold more than 11 million copies in the United Kingdom.
Among his declared fans are former conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak, or Queen Camilla, who was the friend.
Erotic novels
Your novel Rivals As of 1988, last year has been adapted in a series of eight episodes, broadcast on the Disney+platform.
Born in Jill Sallit in 1937 in Yorkshire (in northern England), she began her career as a journalist before writing several romances in the 1970s.
She publishes her first real novel Passengers In 1985, first of the 11 volumes of the series The Rutshire chronicleswhich completed in 2023.
These erotic novels take place in the High Society of the fictional County of the Rutshire, largely inspired by the Cotswolds Hupé region in western England, where I lived, mixing equestrian, classical and glamorous music.
Jilly Cooper wrote with “acuity and information about all subjects: social classes, sex, marriage, rivalries, duel or fertility”, and his books “resisted the test of time,” he paid tribute to his blunt agent of Felicity, cited in the press release.
Source: BFM TV
