How a Woman”s Hour question about her husband”s love affair silenced Jilly Cooper
Jilly and Leo Cooper: Their marriage has survived his affair – but the subject led to an awkward silence when Jilly was questioned about it on Woman”s Hour
Jenni Murray questioned Mrs Cooper about her suggestion that an affair might blow over if you turn a blind eye
In sickness and health: Jilly and Leo Cooper in 1982. The affair referred to was when he had kept a mistress, Sarah Johnson, for six years