Dame Jilly Cooper: Undisputed queen of the joyous British bonkbuster

Jilly Sallitt was born on 21 February 1937 in Hornchurch, Essex, although her parents came from old established Yorkshire families. Her father was Brigadier WB Sallitt OBE, a veteran of Dunkirk and surely a model for Cooper's fictional male characters. "I adored my very handsome father," she said, "...

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