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Dame Jilly Cooper is famous in the equestrian world for creating the series but she wrote a total of 44 books in her lifetime, selling more than 11 million copies around the world. On hearing the sad news that Dame Jilly passed away yesterday (5 October), the team at took some time to reminisce about our favourite Jilly Cooper books.

As an equestrian, it’s frustrating when books and TV don’t get the minor details correct when it comes to horses and horse sport, but with Jilly’s novels this is never the case. She once told H&H this was because “I don’t have a very good imagination, I like to have been there” and that she

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