Dawn French, number one bestselling author ofA Tiny Bit MarvellousandOh 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?


Praise for Dawn French:

'Afantasticslam-dunk pageturner. Funny, enriching . . .page after page I laughed out loud'Mail on Sunday

'A hilarious snapshot of family lifein 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'DailyMail