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Posthumous Jilly Cooper story to hit shelves if final draft can be ‘pieced together’ by team

Posthumous Jilly Cooper story to hit shelves if final draft can be ‘pieced together’ by team

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jilly Cooper’s literary agent and Rivals executive producer Felicity Blunt has said that a posthumous publication by the author could soon be making its way to shelves. Speaking to The Independent as the second season of the bonkbuster hits screens, Blunt said she’d been doing “detective work” to “piece together” Dame Cooper’s final draft. “That would be my ambition for her because to have another piece of her work would be a really beautiful thing and a wonderful surprise,” Blunt said of the newly uncovered tale. The Rutshire Chronicles author died aged 88 in October last year, mid-way through shooting the second season of Rivals, starring David Tennant, Aidan Turner and Danny Dyer. “She would always urge you not to work too hard. And ironically, she worked harder than anybody,” Blunt recalled of Cooper’s dedication to the project in her final …

Pieced Together review – poignant narrative game gathers bittersweet fragments of a friendship | Games

Pieced Together review – poignant narrative game gathers bittersweet fragments of a friendship | Games

Published by Sam Flores

There are few things sadder than the end of a close friendship. Whether it happens in a sudden moment of betrayal or after years of gradual separation, the feelings of loss can stay with you for a lifetime. This is the theme of Pieced Together, a quiet, charming narrative game about best pals Connie and Beth, who meet at school in the 1990s and form an immediate, seemingly inseparable bond. Through the ingenious medium of an interactive scrapbook, we play as Connie, glueing in photos, notes and memories of her friend after years of separation. The game begins with several attempts to write Beth a letter, before we cut-out, stick and sort the story of their lives together. The scrapbook process is divided into chapters of Connie’s life. She moves to a new area with her mum, and this is marked through photos of a moving van, a good luck card, a label with “Connie’s stuff” written on it that was stuck on a box full of her things. You place these items on the …