CLASS IS DEAD! Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper! Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her horribly unfair observations on their everyday pretensions - their sexual courtships, choice of furnishings, clothes, education, food, careers and ambitions...For they will all remind you of people that you know! 'HIGHLY ENTERTAINING, ACERBIC AND WICKEDLY OBSERVANT...CERTAIN TO BECOME AS MUCH PART OF THE VERBAL SHORTHAND AS WAS NANCY MITFORD'S U AND NON-U, A GENERATION AGO' The Economist 'ENORMOUSLY READABLE AND VERY FUNNY' Cosmopolitan
CLASS IS DEAD! Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper! Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her horribly unfair observations on their everyday pretensions - their sexual courtships, choice of furnishings, clothes, education, food, careers and ambitions...For they will all remind you of people that you know! 'HIGHLY ENTERTAINING, ACERBIC AND WICKEDLY OBSERVANT...CERTAIN TO BECOME AS MUCH PART OF THE VERBAL SHORTHAND AS WAS NANCY MITFORD'S U AND NON-U, A GENERATION AGO' The Economist 'ENORMOUSLY READABLE AND VERY FUNNY' Cosmopolitan
The devastatingly funny expose of the English class system!
Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar.
The author of many number one bestselling books, she lives in
Gloucestershire.
She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of
Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy
Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. She was also
appointed DBE in 2024 for services to literature and charity.
Witheringly funny, illuminated by astonishing brilliance
*Observer*
Enormously readable and very funny
*Cosmopolitan*
Highly entertaining, acerbic and wickedly observant... certain to
become as much part of the verbal shorthand as was Nancy Mitford's
U and Non-U, a generation ago
*The Economist*
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