As the former editor of the ‘Erotic Review’, Rowan Pelling explains why Jilly Cooper’s champagne-fuelled, hedonistic spirit and unabashed emphasis on flirtation was her generation’s presiding spirit. Few could surpass the mischievous wit of a woman whose genius was often underestimated T he “Queen of the Bonkbusters” is dead. Let the bells toll and the organ of every British cathedral thunder out “Galloping Home”. Jilly Cooper wasn’t just a writer to the millions who adored her; she was a