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34:332. Jilly Cooper ‘People think I’m nice but I can’t resist gossiping and bitching behind people’s backs. It’s so much fun!’ five grandchildren in the West End, DEFINITE then catch Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Royal Opera House. Dinner would be at The Ivy with Lady Annabel Goldsmith and Paul O’Grady, who are as bats as me about dogs. I’d also invite Prince ARTICLE Charles because I think he’s having a bad time over this Diana stuff. I’d have We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly scallops and champagne. I’d end the probing questions – and only accept day drinking on the terrace at home with friends and watching the Pegasus THE definitive answer. This week constellation gallop across the sky. The happiest moment you will cherish it’s the turn of novelist Jilly Cooper forever... When my father Bill called The prized possession you value above The book that holds an everlasting my mother Elaine to say he was back all others... Bluebell, my black rescued resonance... The Incredible Journey safely from Dunkirk. I was only three Irish greyhound. She’s the greatest by Sheila Burnford, a sweet children’s but I remember her being in ecstasy. comfort when she curls up with her story about two dogs and a cat travel- The saddest time that shook your head on my shoulder in bed at night. ling across Canada searching world... Felix having meningitis and The biggest regret you wish you could for their masters. nearly dying when he was five. amend... Putting two bossy ladies I The priority activity if you The unfulfilled ambition that contin- knew in my book The Common Years. were the Invisible Woman for The event that altered the ues to haunt you... To keep all our local They always ticked me off for my dogs a day... My next novel, called Tackle!, course of your life and char- newspapers in print. behaving badly on Putney Common in is set in the football world, so I’d go in acter... Meeting Godfrey The philosophy that underpins your the 70s, so I got my own back by writing the Chelsea dressing room to listen to Smith, The Sunday Times magazine life... Do good things now, because you about them. I changed their names, but the team talk and half-time rollocking. editor, in 1968. I made him laugh and he commissioned an article, which led may not pass this way again. I still feel guilty because it was mean. The pet hate that makes your hackles The unlikely inter- to a column. It was miraculous for a fat The order of service at your funeral...It The temptation you wish you could rise... Cruelty to animals. est that engages your curiosity... I’m Fulham housewife to get such a job. will be at All Saints Church near home resist... Alcohol, particularly when I mad about fish in ponds. I have three The film you can watch time and time with Mendelssohn’s Elijah and How interview someone over lunch for book divine carp, which were given to me The crime you would commit knowing again... Pride And Prejudice with Lovely Are Thy Dwellings by Brahms. research. It deteriorates into a party and for my 80th birthday this year. I love you could get away with it... I’d alter Laurence Olivier from 1940. He’s I’d go out to Eye Level, the theme next day I can’t remember a thing and watching them whizz around. the law to make it easier for orphans to faint-makingly divine as Mr Darcy. music to TV show Van Der Valk. my notebook is empty. The treasured item you lost and wish find loving families. The person who has influenced you you could have again... The ability to The song that means most to you... The way you want to be remembered... most... My darling husband Leo, who go for long walks in the countryside. Streets Of London by Ralph McTell. It She cheered people up. died in 2013 after suffering from Par- Since I had a hip replaced two years reminds me of my old greyhound The Plug... Mount! by Jilly Cooper is kinson’s. He wasn’t frightened to tell ago I can only manage 20 minutes. Feather. I used to sing it to him. published by Corgi, priced £7.99. me if something I’d written was rub- Visit jillycooper.co.uk. n bish, and he was incredibly funny, so I The endless quest that drives you on... The way you would spend your fantasy As told to Rob McGibbon lifted his best lines for my characters. To keep writing. Thinking about char- 24 hours, with no travel acters stops me being bored or lonely. restrictions... I’d have a lie- The figure from history for whom in at home in Gloucester- The poem that touches your soul... you’d most like to buy a pie and a shire reading the Daily Mail, For An Adopted Child by Fleur Con- Laurence pint... Lord Byron because he then go to York racecourse kling Heyliger. Both my children Olivier with was so witty and glamorous. and ride the famous horse Greer Garson [Emily, 46, and Felix, 48] are adopted The piece of wisdom you Gordon Lord Byron to a in Pride And because I couldn’t have children. It would pass on to a child... win. I’d have a seafood Prejudice sums up the wonder of adopting. from 1940. Always write thank-you cocktail for lunch at the Above right: letters, particularly when The misapprehension about yourself Butchers Arms near home ornamental someone gives you a you wish you could erase... That I’m before watching my local pond carp. Far right: present because they will always nice. I can never resist gossip- football team Forest Green Jilly’s home in be so touched you’ll get ing and bitching behind people’s backs. Rovers win 10-0. I’d see Gloucestershire one next year. It’s so much fun but not exactly nice. Gangsta Granny with my NEXT WEEK ON, es l Exclusive recipes from BBC2’s ti PS... A AG im dic Y YN Bill Nighy investigates a serial killer on the loose in The Limehouse The Big Family Cooking S ett O L Y, G Y, O l S M Showdown Monty A L ON/ Golem, in cinemas Friday. The Script’s new album, Freedom is K, A C Don reveals how easy O st R it is to grow blueberries ARK HARR Child, is out the same day. And Kipling’s The Jungle Book opens M utte : S H S H l P PLUS Britain’s best X/ E /R OGRA L as a circus spectacular at The Lowry in Manchester on Tuesday T A TV listings guide B HO P KO PLEASE RECYCLE Our newspapers, magazines DAilY MAil WEEKEND is publisHed BY AssOciAted NewspApeRS Ltd. PRINted BY PRINOvis UK Ltd, 4 DAKOTA DRive, LiveRPOOL L24 8RJ. ReGisteRed AS A NewspApeR AT THE POst Office. © AssOciAted NewspApeRS Limited 2017. 86 weekend and polythene wrapping are 100% recyclable..
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