Family crises, relationships and everyday embarrassment provide the comic machinery for Dawn French’s fiction. A Tiny Bit Marvellous follows a mother, father and two teenage children through a family crisis using several first-person voices, while Oh Dear Silvia centres on a woman in a coma and the visitors whose memories reveal very different versions of her life. According to Yes sends an Englishwoman into a wealthy Manhattan household, and Because of You begins with two mothers and a hospital mistake that changes both families. French also wrote the memoir Dear Fatty as a series of letters. Her prose is warm, conversational and joke-rich, with emotional conflict kept close to domestic life. The most useful neighbouring categories are Her books comic women’s fiction, family drama and celebrity memoir. Read more Less
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