After moving to Gloucestershire Jilly Cooper wrote regularly for The Mail On Sunday for a number of years. This collection contains the cream of those pieces, reflecting many aspects of country life.
The topics she covers in her inimitable style range from Hunt Balls and Henley to love and sex in the age of AIDS. She has interviewed Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, Lord Hailsham, the cast of East Enders and the proprietress of a famous brothel in the Nevada desert. She writes about her fellow human beings and their foibles provocatively, affectionately – sometimes outrageously. Her portraits of family life in the Cooper household remain the most ruthless and hilarious of all.