Jilly Cooper said she did not practise what she preached in her marital guide ADRIAN SHERRATT/THE TIMESAlmost half a century on, Jilly Cooper has surprised no one by admitting that she did not practise what she preached in her controversial manual How to Stay Married. The novelist was only seven years into her 52-year-long marriage to Leo Cooper when she wrote the humorous guide to wedlock in 1969. She has long been the first to admit that her advice for young wives in the Sixties to keep on top of cooking, cleaning and your husband — though not necessarily at the same time — while turning a blind eye to any bad, husbandly behaviour, has not aged well. Jilly Cooper with her husband, Leo, in 1972. They remained married until his death in 2013 THE TIMES; ALAMYIn an article for The Lady, Cooper, 81, confessed that rereading the book for the first time since its publication, she “nearly died…

Source: The Times May 27, 2018 23:07 UTC