Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved stand-up comics, with a distinctive voice and "quite amusing and " jokes according to a few posh students she's met. But what attracted her to a career in the harsh, unforgiving spotlight of stand-up?From and "nice little girl and " to teenage nightmare, to psychiatric nurse, Jo spills the beans. She talks about her unconventional mum whose independent spirit inspired her and wound her up in equal measure; the traumatic teenage romance that foundered at least four times a month; the loveable patients who, even so, tested her patience; and the horror of her first gig which marked the beginning of a career as that rare species - an incredibly popular female stand-up... according to her family.Look Back in Hunger is Jo's candid account of the friendships, the loves, the laughter, the people and the pints that have defined the life of a woman who never takes anything lying down, although she does quite like lying down.