According To Yes

Dawn French, number one bestselling 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 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 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 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 and Home Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended. A wonderful writer - witty, wise, poignant Daily Mail