Author Dame Jilly Cooper dies after fall

Author Dame Jilly Cooper has died, her steadfast has said.

"It is with large sadness that we denote the decease of Dame Jilly Cooper, DBE who died connected Sunday morning, aft a fall, astatine the property of 88," a connection said.

Her children Felix and Emily said: "Mum was the shining airy successful each of our lives. Her emotion for each of her household and friends knew nary bounds.

"Her unexpected decease has travel arsenic a implicit shock.

"We are truthful arrogant of everything she achieved successful her beingness and can't statesman to ideate beingness without her infectious grin and laughter each astir us."

During her career, which spanned much than 50 years, 11 cardinal copies of her books were sold. One of them, Rivals, was adapted into a palmy TV bid past year.

Her cause Felicity Blunt said: "The privilege of my vocation has been moving with a pistillate who has defined culture, penning and speech since she was archetypal published implicit 50 years ago."

She said Dame Jilly wrote with "acuity and penetration astir each things - class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility", which meant her books "so emphatically stood the trial of time".

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