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Daisy May Cooper is an award-winning writer and actor. With her brother, Charlie Cooper, she co-created and starred in the BAFTA-winning comedy This Country. She has since co-written and starred in Am I Being Unreasonable? and appeared in Rain Dogs, Last One Laughing and Taskmaster.

Her memoir, Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her, was a Sunday Times bestseller. She lives in Gloucestershire with her children. What Took You So Long? is her first novel.

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The hilarious and gripping first novel by Daisy May Cooper.
 Mary's husband unexpectedly leaves her after forty-five years. At the same time, Emma finally finds the courage to do a runner from hers. For the first time in years, mother and daughter find themselves living under one roof in the Cornish fishing village of Polperro, along with eight-year-old Ivy (and her beloved stuffed giraffe, Tw*t). They have returned to Mary's childhood home after the recent death of her mother. But as they navigate their new lives and attempt to reconnect with one another, long-forgotten family truths begin to surface.

Going home was never part of the plan; neither was digging up the past.

Warm and wickedly funny, Daisy May Cooper brings her trademark dark humour to her twisty and touching debut novel.