Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Kerry has difficulty coming to terms with the idea that he will be leaving the village and her behind. Although, he’s left his paint and dust sheet and radio here, so even if he doesn’t come back I can crack on and finish the painting myself.

The book is brutally honest about what it is like to live in poverty in the UK; Cooper felt it was important to be frank. I would have either gone into this industry or become like [the serial killer] Jeffrey Dahmer and been absolutely terrifying,” she says, laughing. Though Kerry and Kurtan are conflicted as to whether they believe anything she says, this nonetheless gives her the air of a criminal which causes them to label her a 'psychopath'.

She has stepped back from social media, partly for personal reasons and partly because she’s so busy.

And yet, under BBC hosts Mark Lamarr and Simon Amstell, this was how the pop quiz rolled: Buzzcocks wasn’t so much mock the week as mock the weak.Just me and Charlie and our ideas and all the blood, sweat and tears it took to get our work together hurtling out there into the cosmos. With seven months having passed since Kerry and Martin were arrested thanks to their “business work”, the village is having to adapt to reality again.

He’s chosen a 19th Century comic classic – widely loved by comedians, and often cited as the first sitcom character in literature. Due to the limited opportunities and mundanity in the rural area where she lives, she is nihilistic and lacking in self-purpose, frequently finding herself with very little to do other than spend time with her cousin, Kurtan, with whom she engages in absent-minded mischief and occasionally antisocial behaviour. We had so little money and so little hope, but something the actor Jessica Ransom said to me after I’d filmed a scene in Doc Martin had stuck in my mind.He thought that was an amazing offer, until he was forced to loiter around the shared kitchen while I had sex with whichever random I brought home.