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Jilly Cooper on life, lockdown and her love of political incorrectness

By Decca Aitkenhead
The Times·
12 mins to read

Bonkbuster queen Jilly Cooper is republishing her classic Sunday Times Magazine columns in a new book. Decca Aitkenhead finds her in rip-roaring form at 83.

In her 51-year career as an author, Jilly Cooper has published well over a million words, but she congratulates me on my "amazing vocabulary!" before I've even taken off my coat. "'Empirical' — very good word."

Cooper is a human fountain of compliments, showering me in them from the moment I arrive. She has been reading up on

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