Dawn French 4 Book Set (According To Yes, Oh Dear Silvia, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Because of You)

This four-book set brings together novels by Dawn French: According To Yes, Oh, Dear Silvia, A Tiny Bit Marvellous and Because of You. Across the collection, the stories focus on family life, private truths and the different ways people understand one another, shifting between domestic comedy and more serious moments.

Within these novels you will encounter Mo Battle as she nears 50 while raising two teenagers; Silvia Shute, in a hospital coma as visitors gather with their own versions of who she is; and Rosie Kitto, an English primary school teacher whose arrival disrupts a tightly controlled Manhattan household. The set also follows two mothers whose lives take very different paths after giving birth in the same hospital, with consequences that emerge years later.

Included titles

• According To Yes
• Oh, Dear Silvia
• A Tiny Bit Marvellous
• Because of You

Key details

• Four-book fiction set
• Novels by Dawn French
• Includes According To Yes, Oh, Dear Silvia, A Tiny Bit Marvellous and Because of You

Synopses

A Tiny Bit Marvellous

Mo Battle is about to turn 50 and is bringing up two teenagers. Her 17-year-old daughter Dora blames Mo for everything, while Peter considers himself as darling and marvellous as his hero, Oscar Wilde. Their dad remains in the background, quietly being Dad.

Oh, Dear Silvia

Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma as family and friends gather at her bedside. Each visitor believes they know the real Silvia, while Silvia has a secret she can never tell. As they come together, the truth about her is revealed again and again.

According To Yes

On Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a rigid code of behaviour shapes the world of the Wilder-Bingham family. Emotional displays are unacceptable and unruly behaviour is not welcome in Glenn Wilder-Bingham’s carefully edited kingdom of restraint. When Rosie Kitto, a 38-year-old primary school teacher from England, arrives with a secret sorrow and an open heart, nobody realises she has not read the rule book.

Because of You

In the same hospital, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters. Hope leaves with a baby girl, while Anna leaves with empty arms. Seventeen years later, revenge is wrought and the truth begins to roll towards them all.