Britain mourns its bonkbuster queen
Jilly Cooper, the author who gave the world sex, horses—and joy—has died
It became known as “The Great Bottom Controversy”. It was 2015, a book called “Riders” had just been reprinted—and it was suddenly noticed that its cover had been changed. Where once the cover had shown a man’s hand clasping a girl’s bottom, now his hand was, almost chastely, on her lower back. The change was small, the outcry was not. The removal of the “buttock-cupping hand” was called “prudish”, “totally unsexy” and “a scandal”.
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