Now something else has left the comedian and star of the Channel 4 series Peep Show an emotional wreck.

"The fact that the Pav (nightclub in Matlock Bath) has closed has broken my heart," she tells the Mercury down the line from what she describes as a "posh square in South London".

"I wanted to start some sort of scheme to get it reopened because it's my 30th this year and I've got so many mates from Matlock who live in London, and we were going to come back up and go to the Pav.

"It was going to be the best night of the year.

"When my mum emailed me to say the Pav had closed I nearly cried."

But she has to overcome her grief to stage her second Edinburgh Fringe Festival full-length show, The Suttie Show, which began its month-long run yesterday.

Yes, puppets are - briefly - involved, but, more importantly, so is the songwriting prowess which once helped her school mates to woo the lads and now draws comparisons with Victoria Wood.

"It's about the dreams of what you thought you would be when you were a kid versus what you end up being, and all the things that come along the way," Isy said of the show and, after some gentle pressing, explained: "The first thing I wanted to do is be a writer of serious love songs.

"My mates used to commission me to write love songs for a particular boy - this is at Highfields - and we'd record the songs on a cassette tape, and either give it directly to the boy or put it in his bag."

So determined were they, she and a friend once even caught the bus to Wirksworth when Highfields kids had a day off just to place a tape in the bag of an Anthony Gell School student.

We should at this point warn any males aged around 30 and living in the Matlock area that some of those songs - which she describes as "very cringeful" - will be reprised in Isy's show.

"Let's just say there are two blokes from Bonsall who might remember," she said.

"They were on the receiving end of some of those songs.

"But they are remembered very fondly, and it's certainly the songs themselves that are being mocked rather than the subject of their affections."

Isy's Edinburgh debut last year, entitled Love Lost In The British Retail Industry, put Matlock on the Fringe map.

"I wanted to increase tourism because I don't think there are enough tourists there," she chuckles, adding: "I love Matlock and I don't go back often enough.

"My show last year was about a boy and a girl who fall in love in Somerfield in Matlock, partly because I used to work there.

"There used to be this shelf stacker and I was on the tills, and I used to look at the rota and try and get on the same shifts as him."

"I also set it in Matlock because I love it so much and I can do the accent," she says,admitting: "I'm not very good at accents."

While the tapes or the rota-rigging may not have worked, Isy's recent appearances as 'geekette' Dobbie in Peep Show have already attracted two online marriage proposals and a rather "scary" invitation from a beered-up rugby team to recreate a quirky song and dance routine that she performed in the show.

But should you be one of those chaps who, one day in the early 1990s, found a mysterious cassette in their school bag with a lilting love song written just for you, you have the chance to see how the composer is living her dream on stage when she appears at Derby Assembly Rooms on September 17 and Nottingham Lakeside on October 2.

If you can't wait that long and fancy a trip to the Scottish capital, you can catch Isy Suttie at the Pleasance Beside from 4pm each day from July 30 to August 25.