Cuckoo In the Nest

Comedian Nat Luurtsema is a very funny woman. As a stand-up and as part of sketch trio Jigsaw. This memoir of her 6 months living at home while looking for a flat started out as a collection of hilarious warts'n'all blogs that were her opportunity to rant and rave about the parents that drove her crazy. Now woven into a narrative, and with added tenderness, pathos and refined fun-pokery at her parents, it's a book.

It's a very funny dissection of the boomerang generation, who leave the parental house until they can't afford to, and find themselves having to fit in new routines and ways to live with how they grew up and the people they grew up with. Nat's writing is funniest when describing mundane tasks like the weekly shop and the amount of stress and confusion it can cause. There is a clever political aside throughout about the recession and affordable housing. The star of the show is Nat's dad, unable to deal with his daughter, or life, in fact. Nat's writing is both funny and bathetic at the same time and this makes for a great comedic first book.