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Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

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Brilliant. A joy and a delight - I laughed out loud! An absolute cracker

Hilarious, brutally honest and very entertaining. Bloody brilliant, like the woman herself

She writes very well on the humiliations of poverty, without losing her sense of humour . . . It's a riot from start to finish

Cooper is casual and caustic as she looks at the bright side and the darker underbelly of showbiz

This book proves it's absurd for anybody to think they know more about being funny than Daisy May Cooper. A riot from start to finish

Hilarious. A riot from start to finish

Perfect for anyone who loved This Country or wants to learn about how Cooper got her break in comedy

Memoirs are often described as 'honest' but it's rare that someone would write as honestly as Cooper

Thank goodness for the gloriously silly Daisy May Cooper. Joyful, irreverent and totally uplifting

The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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.' 
 
I suppose that's a weird way of coping, isn't it? Trying to turn the bleakest situation into a positive. 
 
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, 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.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER 
 
Discover the hilarious memoir 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 
'Hilarious. A riot from start to finish' DAILY EXPRESS 
'Bloody brilliant, like the woman herself' HEAT 
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I've always had an over-active imagination and felt the urge to be a massive f**king show-off so acting seemed like the obvious choice of career. There was never anything else I wanted to do more. But fulfilling my ambition wasn't going to be easy . . . 
 
I grew up battling rural poverty which was a struggle enough but my family were completely insane to boot. Together with my brother Charlie, I staggered my way through adolescence from one drama to the next until finally, after years of trying, we had This Country commissioned by the BBC. 
 
By sharing tales of how I accidentally auditioned to be a pole-dancer to being catfished by a one-armed internet boyfriend, I answer all of life's great mysteries: 
 
Could I count wall plaster as one of my five-a-day? 
 
Would I find the afterlife in the back of a shitty pub? 
 
Who dropped the monster turd at the fake audition? 
 
And just how much of a humiliating, ridiculous, screw-up of a s**t-storm life did I need to lead before I could finally realise my dream?

Daisy May Cooper is an award-winning comedy actress and writer. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2018 for her role as Kerry Mucklowe in the BBC Three series This Country, a mockumentary-style show about the eccentricities of life in rural England, which she co-created and co-wrote with her brother, Charlie Cooper. This Country has also won multiple BAFTA awards. 
 
She recently starred in Armando Iannucci's The Personal History of David Copperfield, and has featured on TV shows including Avenue 5, Doc Martin and The Wrong Mans.

Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Brilliant. A joy and a delight - I laughed out loud! An absolute cracker

Hilarious, brutally honest and very entertaining. Bloody brilliant, like the woman herself

She writes very well on the humiliations of poverty, without losing her sense of humour . . . It's a riot from start to finish

Cooper is casual and caustic as she looks at the bright side and the darker underbelly of showbiz

This book proves it's absurd for anybody to think they know more about being funny than Daisy May Cooper. A riot from start to finish

Hilarious. A riot from start to finish

Perfect for anyone who loved This Country or wants to learn about how Cooper got her break in comedy

Memoirs are often described as 'honest' but it's rare that someone would write as honestly as Cooper

The funniest book of the year

Hilarious

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