Overall a darker and more tragic read than what I was expecting, but with some good laugh out loud moments.

Daisy narrates the story really well and does lots of funny voices, and she slightly goes of piste into other little chats that aren't in the book. Daisy and Charlie are contracted to do a cleaning job for three hours, but manage to do it in 20 minutes. This is a real insight into Daisy's life pre-This Country (which is an absolute banger of a show btw) and how she grew up in poverty. This audio version also has the added bonus of an exclusive interview with Daisy and her father Paul. I’m going to decide to take it all with a pinch of salt, otherwise I’ll end up thinking a lot less of her than I did.I know it's supposed to make me laugh, but I just felt so very sad for Daisy May and her family - growing up in chaos, dealing with loss and severe financial worries.

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. please don't start reading this book expecting it to be a laugh a minute, because you'll be bitterly disappointed.Life is pretty challenging right now, but for the few days its taken me to read Don't Laugh It'll Only Encourage Her, I've found a brief respite from the day to day issues and have been able to chuckle, snort, giggle and fully on belly laugh my way through the whole book! Still the funniest book I’ve touched in a long time and I’d be up for reading any number of sequels. However, the hardback printed book shows lots of previously unseen photographs, plus copies of old school text books and random drawings. There are so many mad crazy experiences in the book that I did, on occasion, question whether not they could all really be true. I expect hearing the author telling the stories would be very different, but reading them on a page left me desperately sorry that she and her family had been through so much.