found: Her How to survive Christmas, 1986:title-page (Jilly Cooper) jacket (Jilly Cooper comes from Yorkshire, although she was born in Essex and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury. She originally worked as a journalist on provincial newspapers before lapsing and going into publishing. She graduated back to journalism through the pages of the Sunday Times and for thirteen and a half years her column was one of the most widely read features in the paper. During 1982 she moved to Gloucestershire and began writing a column for the Mail on Sunday but she recently devoted more time to writing books. She is also the author of of the best-selling novel, Riders, six romances, a book of short stories and two anthologies. She has also published several children's books)
