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Paperback edition of one of the big celebrity autobiographies of 2009. Jo Brand has become one of our most popular comedians, with a sharp eye for the absurd and a candour made less abrasive with wit. She tells her life story in her own unique voice: what possessed her to become a professional stand-up after 10 years as a psychiatric nurse, or leave the middle class comfort of her upbringing in her teens to live with someone totally inappropriate?
Synopsis
With hilarious, engaging, razor-sharp wit and a gift for anecdote, Jo reveals the experiences and incidents in her life that gave rise to her huge success as a comedian