US EditionDame Jilly Cooper obituary: Sex, glamour and posh people behaving badly - she was the undisputed 'queen of the bonkbuster'
Dame Jilly Cooper, honored with OBE and CBE, pioneered the bonkbuster genre and led the Animals In War Memorial Fund, leaving a lasting impact on literature and charity.
- Dame Jilly Cooper died at the age of 88 this week, leaving behind her children Emily and Felix and five grandchildren.
- Her honours record shows Dame Jilly Cooper received an OBE , a CBE , and her damehood last year from the King, while leading the Animals In War Memorial Fund that created the Park Lane memorial .
- Cooper wrote about themes: class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility with acuity, while upper-class sexploits in bucolic settings preserved readers' appetite for her bonkbusters.
- Figures from UK publishing and royalty, including Gyles Brandreth, Elizabeth Day and Queen Camilla, paid tribute to Dame Jilly Cooper, whose self-mythologising included being sacked 22 times as a PR officer.
- Looking at her legacy, Dame Jilly Cooper said she had always wanted to write happy books, yet the obituary suggested, `There is no way you would get a Jilly Cooper commissioned now` in today's commissioning climate for novels.
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Jilly Cooper, a British bestselling author known for her daring and erotic stories, has died unexpectedly at the age of 88. Her friend Queen Camilla also paid tribute to her, wishing her "many more attractive men and devoted dogs."
Jilly Cooper: why readers still cherish her ‘fat, fun, frothy novels’
The author Jilly Cooper has died aged 88. Cooper’s books were “bonkbusters” – a form of blockbuster fiction that was most popular in the 1980s and 1990s, characterised by explicit sex, scandalous plots and large casts of characters. In her 1993 novel, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, a reporter rings famous singer Georgie to tell her that her husband Guy had been voted “hubby of the year”. She elaborates: “To be quite honest there wasn’t a lot…
Jilly Cooper was also paid tribute to by her friend Queen Camilla.
This death message meets both literary fans and royals alike: British best-selling author Dame Jilly Cooper died at the age of 86. Queen Camilla is struck by a heavy blow of fate, which takes her a "wonderfully funny and compassionate friend".
Jilly ‘Queen of the Bonkbuster’ Cooper, the author behind Disney+ hit ‘Rivals’, has died aged 88
Jilly Cooper, who has died aged 88, made her mark first as a Sunday Times columnist and commentator on domestic chaos, then as the author of romantic novellas, and finally as “Queen of the Bonkbuster”, with a series of racy novels set in the aptly named Rutshire and dealing in bed-hopping horsey types with pert bottoms and loose morals.
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