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Dame Jilly Cooper reveals she was silenced and mistreated by publishers after she was almost raped by an fellow author who 'ripped her clothes off' in the backseat of a taxi
The writer, 87, who has sold over 12 million books and is one of the UK's most prolific romance novelists, said the attempted sexual assault took place in her early career.
The writer, 87, who has sold over 12 million books and is one of the UK’s most prolific romance novelists, said the attempted sexual assault took place in her early career. She describes her experience of growing up in Yorkshire, where she developed a passion for horses, dogs, and charming men, and the start of her career in journalism and publishing in the 1950s and 1960s, when ‘fiction was very difficult as you could not mention any part of the waist, below the leg or above the knee’. In the documentary, she watches her past appearances on chat shows with Russell Harty and Terry Wogan, and talks about her marriage, sex, and her move to the Cotswolds.
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