Dawn French number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous & Oh Dear Silvia returns with her joyously funny new novel According To Yes The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy
- otherwise known as Manhattan&s Upper East Side
- has its own rigid code of behaviour It&s a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family Emotional displays
- unacceptable Unruly behaviour
- definitely not welcome Fun
- no thanks This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham&s kingdom A beautifully displayed impeccably edited fortress of restraint So when Rosie Kitto an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow & a heart as big as the city nobody realises that she hasn&t read the rule book For the Wilder-Bingham family whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread the consequences are explosive Because after a lifetime of saying no what happens when everyone decides to start saying yes?I adored According to YES It&s so different to anything I&ve read in forever so charming wise brilliantly written I loved it all& Marian Keyes& There is lots of fun to be had reading this book It&s impossible not to warm to Rosie a funny & open-hearted woman who acts as a salve & comfort blanket for this unhappy inhibited family There&s something quite joyous about the way she unashamedly romps her way through the novel changing the lives of those around her for the better& Express& French can spin a yarn which sets According to YES apart from the usual chick-lit template Think the vicar of Dibley without the dog collar YES YES YES indeed& Independent Further praise for Dawn French&A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner Funny enriching page after page I laughed out loud& Mail on Sunday&A hilarious snapshot of family life in the twenty-first century& Sunday Express& Extremely funny& Sunday Times& Dawn tackles the big ones
- love death grief childhood motherhood parenthood
- head on& Guardian& Makes you laugh on every page& The Times&A brilliantly observed very funny novel of family life& Woman & Home& Funny really enjoyable highly recommended A wonderful writer
- witty wise poignant& Daily Mail