Harriet (novel)

Harriet is a 1976 romance novel by English author Jilly Cooper. The eponymous lead, Harriet falls pregnant while at university and leaves to have the baby after the father breaks up with her. She moves to Yorkshire where she is employed by screenwriter Cory Erskine as a nanny to his two children; they ultimately realise they are in love, decide to become a couple and combine their families. Barbara Cartland reviewed the novel, describing it as "melodramatic" and denied that it belonged to the wider romance genre. In 2018 Red selected the work as one of their top ten Cooper novels. In 2013 The Telegraph reported that the novel was being adapted into a musical by Eva Rice, novelist and daughter of Tim Rice.