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According to Yes

According to Yes

by Dawn French (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

    $3.34
Synopsis

Dawn French, number one best-selling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous and 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 and 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 starts saying...yes? Praise for Dawn French: "A fantastic slam-dunk page turner. 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 and Home). "Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended. A wonderful writer - witty, wise, poignant." (Daily Mail). Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. As a writer, comedian and actor, she has appeared in some of this country's most long-running and celebrated shows, including French and Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley, Jam and Jerusalem, and more recently, Roger and Val Have Just Got In. Her first two novels, A Tiny Bit Marvellous and Oh Dear Silvia, are both Number One best sellers.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 22 Oct 2015
ISBN 10: 0718159179
ISBN 13: 9780718159177

Media Reviews
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
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 *
There is lots of fun to be had reading this book. It's impossible not to warm to Rosie, a funny and open-hearted woman who acts as a salve and 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 *
An enlightening and feel-good read offering a fresh look at life and how to embrace it. Funny and enjoyable to the end * We Love This Book *
Another hilarious novel! * Bella *
French acknowledges in all of this that her happiness is not just chance. There has also been a significant change of attitude to her life. It's why she's called her new book According to Yes, and she writes of the main character Rosie: 'She is the person who, a couple of weeks ago, said no to all the even keel, and yes to grabbing life by the throat, yes to jumping off the edge, yes to what the hell's it going to be like? Yes to being afraid. YES, YES, YES, PLEASE!' * The Times *
A fantastic slam-dunk page-turner. Funny, enriching . . . page after page I laughed out loud * Mail on Sunday (on 'A Tiny Bit Marvellous') *
A hilarious snapsnot of family life in the twenty-first century * Sunday Express (on 'A Tiny Bit Marvellous') *
Side-splitting, darkly humorous. It will make you laugh with delight * Heat (on 'Oh Dear Silvia') *
A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life * Women and Home (on 'A Tiny Bit Marvellous') *
Extremely funny * Sunday Times (on 'A Tiny Bit Marvellous') *
Hilarious. Chortle-out-loud turns of phrase, razor-sharp observations * Stylist (on 'Oh Dear Silvia') *
Makes you laugh on every page * The Times (on 'A Tiny Bit Marvellous') *
Dawn tackles the big ones - love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood - head on * Guardian (on 'Oh Dear Silvia') *
An easy read, but one that doesn't fall short on sustenance - it's not purely light and airy but fun and poignant with some hilariously perceptive observations of family life. French covers the big issues of love, betrayal, grief and heartbreak * We Love This Book *
Author Bio
Dawn French has been making people laugh for 30 years. As a writer, comedian and actor, she has appeared in some of this country's most long-running and celebrated shows, including French and Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley, Jam and Jerusalem, and more recently, Roger and Val Have Just Got In. Her first three novels, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Oh Dear Silvia and According to YES, are all Sunday Times bestsellers.