Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her
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  • Published: 28 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241503607
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

  • Daisy May Cooper
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28 Oct 2021
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28 Oct 2021
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15 Jul 2022
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The achingly funny, always entertaining and often heart-breaking 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.'

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.
  • Published: 28 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241503607
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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Praise for Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

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

Zoe Ball

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

Daily Mirror

Hilarious. A riot from start to finish

Daily Express

Hilarious

Sun

Hilarious

Daily Star

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

Heat

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

Funny Women

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

The Times

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

Funny Women

Hilarous

YOU Magazine

The funniest book of the year

Sunday Express

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

Sunday Express

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

The Times

The lockdown comedy queen

The Guardian