THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLERPre-order the funniest memoir of 2021, written by the most relatable woman in the world - Daisy May Cooper, creator and star of BBC's award-winning comedy This Country'Thank goodness for gloriously silly Daisy May Cooper. Joyful, irreverent and totally uplifting' The Times'The lockdown comedy queen' Guardian______Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Gloucestershire with her brother Chaz, she had to work a myriad of low-paid and unrewarding jobs just to make ends meet. Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her is the endearingly honest and hilarious memoir from the creator and star of award-winning BBC comedy This Country.____When things were really bad, Mum would always say to me:'Don't worry, it will be a good read for your memoir one day.''Mum, I auditioned to be a stripper by snogging a pole and was laughed off the stage by a bunch of topless dancers.''Well that can go in the memoir.''Mum, I spent all my student loan accidently on a penthouse suite in a fancy hotel in Marble Arch, now I face getting kicked out of drama school.''That's a good one for the memoir.''Mum, sorry I'm late for dinner, I had to work late at my cleaning job because someone balanced a Quaver packet full of piss on the radiator in the boy's toilets, and I didn't realise until I picked it up, so I had to wash the piss off me in the sink while trying to learn my lines for that Call the Midwife audition I have in London tomorrow.''Memoir...'I have lived the most humiliating, ridiculous, screw-up of a life but Mum was right, you've just got to remember, sometimes the worst experiences make the most entertaining stories.______
ISBN: | 9781405949224 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Books |
Published date: | 24 Nov 2022 |
DEWEY: | 792.028092 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 320 |
Weight: | 500g |
Height: | 198mm |
Width: | 129mm |
Spine width: | 35mm |