With a string of television acting credits to her name, including SHAMELESS, WHITES and SKINS, she is perhaps best known for playing Dobby in PEEP SHOW.

It came across as a weak attempt at trying to explain some of the reasons behind Jane's mental health concerns. Loved the depiction of OCD, always in the background like a thread running through the story, but not a total defining personality trait. This debut novel exudes all the offbeat humour and acute observation you might expect from the actress and comedian who first stole our hearts as Dobby in Peep Show. I also felt the characters were written as stereotypes of either rich middle-class families (Sadie, Andrew, Jonathan etc) or low income working-class families (Kelly, Becca etc) and this made them lack realism.

This is clearly a provincial, parochial world she knows well, and can tease it affectionately even as her heroine progresses ever further on the road paved with good intentions.

It reminded me a little of Jessie Cave’s Sunset, an entirely different book also written by a comedian, which I loved as well. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Health anxiety and OCD come from the same place, I think, which is a need for control and certainty.I know Jane has her issues but it just became too frustrating to read and her reactions to everything, particularly her parents were too extreme. It’s a funny process, waiting every month for the ovulation stick to say it’s time, then leaping into action. I also enjoyed the ending, and how it didn't exactly follow the predictable ending I was expecting, but instead felt like Jane making some 'happy compromises', which felt like quite a wholesome ending. That’s a tribute to my friend who once genuinely convinced me that it was pronounced “The Ma-goose”.

Suttie has created a charming world of oddballs (and their even odder parents) I miss them all already! Suttie has a keen eye for supplementary detail, which makes her story seem all the more real, and an ear for a nice turn of phrase, which makes it delightful to read. A lady brought back a period book 'It's ahout bloody time period', I loved in the library and mentioned this book was good too. Some of the behaviour of others, especially her parents, was ridiculous to the point of hilarity at times. Nobody in the book was particularly likeable (apart from Kelly) and the course of events didn’t ring true.The second series of her Sony award-winning radio series ISY SUTTIE'S LOVE LETTERS was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014, and in 2014 she made her musical theatre debut as the starring role in THE A-Z OF MRS P at the Southwark Playhouse. The plot is an uncomplicated tale of how she runs home to mum and dad, away from a cheating partner in London, who wants her back.

Beyond the battering her confidence took from the split, it’s clear Jane has other issues: she’s OCD and suffers anxious, intrusive thoughts.Jane is back in the sticks - having left London after a traumatic breakup with a boyfriend, prompted by their struggles to conceive and his infidelity. Now she’s about to publish her debut novel, Jane Is Trying, about an anxiety sufferer’s struggles to get pregnant. I. A three-time British Comedy Award nominee, her short stories have appeared in A Love Letter To Europe and Dead Funny: Encore . Then one day, after taking the courageous first step to get back on antidepressants, she finds out she's pregnant.