What Took You So Long?

Daisy May Cooper, the writer and actor who co-created This Country with her brother Charlie, turns to fiction with her first novel. Her deadpan portrait of village life in the Cotswolds won over a nation, and she has already told her own story in a memoir. Here she brings the same unguarded humour to a story about bad exes and buried secrets.

The publisher has kept the plot close to its chest, but the promise is a comic novel with something darker hidden underneath. The blurb calls it hilarious and gripping, and it will suit anyone who loves Cooper's mix of the funny and the painfully honest, especially readers with an ex or two they would rather not think about.