According to Yes

Description

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. 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 decides to start saying . . . yes?

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 bestsellers.

A fantastic slam-dunk page-turner. Funny, enriching . . . page after page I laughed out loud * Mail on Sunday * A hilarious snapsnot of family life in the twenty-first century * Sunday Express * Side-splitting, darkly humorous. It will make you laugh with delight * Heat * A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life * Women and Home * Extremely funny * Sunday Times * Hilarious. Chortle-out-loud turns of phrase, razor-sharp observations * Stylist * Makes you laugh on every page * The Times * Dawn tackles the big ones - love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood - head on * Guardian *