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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

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

Heat

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

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

Zoe Ball

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

Heat

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

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

Zoe Ball

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

Heat

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

Articles featuring Daisy May Cooper

Daisy May Cooper: ‘I love being famous!’

Daisy May Cooper: ‘I love being famous!’

It’s been a long, hard road for the creator of This Country, who grew up in poverty and chaos before finding an unconventional route into stardom. Her brilliant new memoir Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her tells the whole story.