Cuckoo in the Nest, Nat Luurtsema
Cuckoo in the Nest, Nat Luurtsema
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Cuckoo in the Nest
28 and back home with mum and dad. Living the dream...

Author: Nat Luurtsema

Narrator: Nat Luurtsema

Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/12/2012

Synopsis

Keep your enemies close, your family less so...

Last year Nat found herself with nowhere to live. She considered sleeping on the bus and washing in the rain but inevitably ended up on her parents' doorstep. It was only for a month, she assured them, if that.. She repeated this phrase a lot over the next six months, while the housing market stagnated like a spoilt kid's fish tank, and her life followed suit. While her friends pursued normal adult lives, Nat was taking packed lunches to gigs and being treated to lectures on 'Why It's Nice When All The Tins Face Forwards In The Cupboard.' ('So we can see what they all are at a glance!')

Nat wouldn't say she and those like her were the real victims of the recession, but it would be nice if you did. Then she would do a tiny, brave smile.

A book for anyone who's been forced back to the family nest, parents who can't shake off their adult kids, or anyone who's ever excused themselves from a family gathering for a quick scream into a pile of towels.

(P)2012 Hodder & Stoughton

About Nat Luurtsema

Nat won the Chortle Best Newcomer award after just eight months of doing stand-up. She has taken two shows to the Edinburgh Festival, and has written scripts for Channel 4 and Radio 4. She lives in a rented flat in London. Finally.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ash on June 14, 2012

Perhaps 5 stars is too generous a score. (Definitely a '4' I'm still experiencing the post consumption glow, so it's hard to tell.) But I'm surprised at the low scores on here. Personally I thought this book was hilarious and ploughed through it in a couple of nights. I guess it helps that I'm in a......more

Goodreads review by Lorna on November 04, 2017

I loved this book it is so accurate about living back home, the similarities are scary a must read for those who do end up back home......more

Goodreads review by Jonny on May 05, 2020

Watford-born comedian boomerangs back home, with hilarious consequences.......more

Goodreads review by Tweedledum on July 23, 2014

Reading this book has been very therapeutic as Nat's experience is very close to home.We have had a son returned to the nest for 2 years and the book helped me a) get some perspective back and b) appreciate my son's feelings more, c)laugh a lot especially at passages that could have been us, and d)l......more

Goodreads review by Selina on April 23, 2016

Not sure if someone could sustain a book this long for what turns out six months of parent-child nightmare, but Nat pulls it off. I want to put it down to the eccentricity of the English, but, her mother shows worrying signs of pathological narcissism and I fear for the daughter. As for Watford, I di......more

Quotes

Disgustingly talented. The Guardian

Wincingly funny. The Observer

Nat Luurtsema is definitely an original thinker. Her inventive, witty routines demonstrate a wonderfully warped logic, taken to the limits of imagination. Chortle

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