This Country’s Daisy May Cooper has written her memoir, Don’t Laugh, It Will Only Encourage Her, due to be published in October by Penguin Michael Joseph.
Publisher Charlotte Hardman said: ”Daisy had already taken her place in our hearts with This Country but she has also become Instagram and TikTok’s stand out star during this past strange year. She has entertained us all with her parodies, her insight into how the government works, her own take on famous theme tunes and her flirtation with the Sea Captain. She has provided all of the laughs just when we all needed it most and garnered a huge following as a result.
“But Daisy’s life hasn’t always only been about making people laugh. Daisy’s memoir manages to talk openly about her family’s struggles in her childhood while also bringing all the brilliantly observed detail you expect from her humour. It is full of the most wonderful and ultimately uplifting stories. I’m delighted to be working with Daisy to bring her story to the page this autumn.”
Cooper said: “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’. Well, it seems that one day is today!
“I have lived the most humiliating, ridiculous, screw-up of a shit-storm life and it has been an utter joy digging up all that shit and putting it down on paper. Therapeutic even.
“I’m writing this memoir because I owe it myself to tell this story. I also really need the money as we’ve got an ant infestation that needs sorting…”
Don’t Laugh, It Will Only Encourage Her will be available from 28th October, pre-order here!
