Jilly ready to tackle football in final book
Novelist Ji l ly Cooper believes she may only write one more novel.
The author, famous for writing about the worlds of horse racing and showjumping, plans to switch her attention to football for her next book.
Cooper, 79, who lives in Gloucestershire, said her book Tackle will follow the racy theme of many of her hit titles.
She said: “I think I only have one more novel in me. I am going to be 80 in February.”
Cooper, a long-standing football fan, said the plot will see the caddish Rupert Campbell-Black take over a club and the book will follow the fortunes of the team’s players and families.
She said: “You make more money out of football. “I love football. “When I was a child, our cat supported Scunthorpe and our golden retriever supported Motherwell.
“We supported Leeds United because we lived in Yorkshire.”
Cooper told the Cheltenham Literature Festival her most recent novel Mount! was years in the making.
She said: “I want to write about football and I also want Dora Belvedon to save a local newspaper,
“I am very serious about local newspapers as they are the guardians of our morality and they dig around in places like Stroud and Cheltenham and find all sorts of things happening.
“They are wonderful and they are just closing down like mad and it is so sad.”