Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lisa and Co | 1981 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
Lisa and Co is Jilly Cooper’s sole short story collection, published in 1981 during the same period she was writing her early standalone novels and building her reputation as a newspaper columnist. The stories cover romantic entanglements and social comedy, condensed into shorter form but carrying the same energy as her novels.
For readers who enjoy Cooper’s sense of humor and her observations about relationships between men and women, Lisa and Co offers bite-sized samples of her style. It sits between her early standalones and the start of the Rutshire Chronicles, and gives a good sense of what Cooper was doing as a fiction writer before Riders changed the scale of her ambitions.