Jilly Cooper

She still has the same core group of close friends she's had for the past thirty years, and many friends in the world of writing. The latter includeSusan Hill and Jilly Cooper .

In a letter to Philip Larkin , Pym remarked, Iris was much smaller than I imagined—I'd always thought of her as tall, but I seemed to tower above her (though only in height, of course)...

Jilly Cooper called this book a very good reconstruction.

In the early 1970s somebody told the journalist Jilly Cooper that she might aspire to write like EMD . She found a copy of Diary of a Provincial Lady, embarked on it without enthusiasm...

The book is dedicated to the editor and directors of Time and Tide. Its many reprints include those with introductions by Nicola Beauman and by Jilly Cooper .

In 2008 Jilly Cooper called it a savage, obsessive and alarming piece of writing attacking personal vanity.