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How the Jilly Cooper Book Club turned toxic

27 April 2024

9:00 AM

27 April 2024

9:00 AM

The Jilly Cooper Book Club was set up about a decade ago by two friends who’d had enough of book groups where someone would insist, ‘We really must do Dostoevsky this year.’ Members of the JCBC, in a co-founder’s words, just wanted to get together to ‘drink champagne and shriek about Jilly’.

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