Jilly Cooper reveals she never took her own marriage advice from 1969 bestseller
How To Stay Married told women they could only work if they were home in time to cook
RAUNCHY writer Jilly Cooper admits she “shamingly” never followed the advice from her How To Stay Married book.
The 1969 bestseller told women they could only work if they were home in time to cook.
Cooper also wrote that if a woman refused a man’s requests to romp for two days he cannot be blamed for straying.
But Cooper, 81, said she “nearly died of horror” re-reading it.
She told The Lady magazine: “What a smug, opinionated, proselytising little know-it-all I was back then.
"More shamingly, I have never practised what I preached.”
Cooper winced at her line that “if a man is married to a slut” the husband must remonstrate with her as “women like a firm hand”.
Cooper, whose husband Leo cheated on her, also wrote: “If your husband looks happy on a Monday morning and miserable on a Friday night, he’s probably having an affair at work.”
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