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Creator Dame Jilly Cooper has died

By Editorial Board Published October 6, 2025 4 Min Read
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Creator Dame Jilly Cooper has died

Creator Dame Jilly Cooper has died, her writer has stated.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dame Jilly Cooper, DBE who died on Sunday morning, after a fall, at the age of 88,” an announcement stated.

The very best-selling writer was famend for her raunchy, so-called “bonkbuster” novels, which portrayed the scandals and intercourse lives of rich nation social circles, together with Rivals, Riders and Polo.

She was praised for her mix of risqué storylines and critique of Britain’s class system, personified by showjumping lothario Rupert Campbell-Black.

Her kids Felix and Emily stated: “Mum was the shining mild in all of our lives. Her love for all of her household and pals knew no bounds.

“Her unexpected death has come as a complete shock.

“We’re so happy with the whole lot she achieved in her life and might’t start to think about life with out her infectious smile and laughter throughout us.”

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Jilly Cooper met Queen Camilla throughout a reception at Clarence Home in March this yr. Pic: PA

Jilly Cooper and daughter Emily. Pic: PA

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Jilly Cooper and daughter Emily. Pic: PA

Dame Jilly was propelled to business success within the Eighties, and offered 11 million copies of her books throughout her greater than fifty-year profession.

Final yr Rivals was tailored right into a profitable TV collection, which she labored on as an government producer.

Jilly Cooper with cast members from Rivals in 2024. Pic: Hogan Media/Shutterstock

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Jilly Cooper with solid members from Rivals in 2024. Pic: Hogan Media/Shutterstock

Jilly Cooper found fame in the 1980s. Pic: Nikki English/ANL/Shutterstock

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Jilly Cooper discovered fame within the Eighties. Pic: Nikki English/ANL/Shutterstock

Tributes to the writer of ‘culture-defining bonkbusters’

The writer’s many followers included former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who stated the books supplied “escapism”.

Her agent Felicity Blunt stated: “The privilege of my career has been working with a woman who has defined culture, writing and conversation since she was first published over fifty years ago.”

She added: “You wouldn’t expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time, but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things – class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.”

Her writer Invoice Scott-Kerr stated: “Jilly may have worn her influence lightly, but she was a true trailblazer.

“As a journalist she went the place others feared to tread, and as a novelist she did likewise.

“With a winning combination of glorious storytelling, wicked social commentary and deft, lacerating characterisation, she dissected the behaviour, bad mostly, of the English upper middle classes with the sharpest of scalpels.”

Author Jilly Cooper with two stars of a mini TV series based on her book Riders. Pic: PA

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Creator Jilly Cooper with two stars of a mini TV collection primarily based on her guide Riders. Pic: PA

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The ‘unholy terror’

Her writing profession started in 1956 as a junior reporter on the Middlesex Impartial, masking the whole lot from events to soccer.

Aidan Turner played the character Declan O'Hara in Rivals. Pic: PA

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Aidan Turner performed the character Declan O’Hara in Rivals. Pic: PA

She had stated she was referred to as the “unholy terror” in school, and was sacked from 22 jobs earlier than discovering her method into guide publishing.

Dame Jilly began writing tales for ladies’s magazines in 1968, and located her break in 1969 when The Sunday Occasions revealed a narrative on being an ”undomesticated” homemaker. It gave rise to a column that lasted over 13 years.

In 2019 she gained the inaugural Comedy Ladies in Print lifetime achievement award, and in 2024 was made a dame for her companies to literature and charity.

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