Think Rivals is wild? Jilly Cooper was my neighbour and the Cotswolds I grew up in was even racier - from royal shenanigans to a Spanish hunk who worked his way through the county's housewives | Daily Mail Online

Champagne-popping parties and indiscretions galore were routine growing up in Bisley, the beautiful Cotswolds village that the late Jilly Cooper so perfectly captured in Rivals.