Jilly Cooper
Nov 20, 2018
3 minutes
As told to David Clark
Jilly Cooper CBE is known as ‘The Queen of the Bonkbuster’ for her racy best-selling books that include Riders, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous and Mount! She’s had an extraordinary life, starting her career as a publisher’s receptionist, writing her first newspaper column in 1969, and subsequently making a successful career as a novelist.
I first photographed her at her Gloucestershire house in March 1996. At that time, I was 30 and just starting. In this case, Jilly had personally requested that I do the shoot, because she had seen some pictures I’d taken of dog owners with their pets. When I arrived, she kept exclaiming, ‘My dog photographer! My dog photographer!’
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