London, Oct 6, 2025 (AFP) - UK author Jilly Cooper dies aged 88

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2025-10-06

British author Jilly Cooper, known for her unapologetically racy novels, has died at the age of 88, her agent and family said on Monday. UK media reported that the writer, who penned the series of romantic novels known as The Rutshire Chronicles, died after a fall on Sunday. "I have lost a friend, an ally, a confidante and a mentor. But I know she will live forever in the words she put on the page and on the screen," Cooper's publicist Felicity B......

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