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.