A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French

A Tiny Bit Marvellous

Author: Dawn French

Everyone hates the perfect family.
So you'll love the Battles.

Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, EVERYTHING and Peter who believes he's quite simply as marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere, keeping quiet, is Dad, who's just, well . . . Dad.

However, Mo is having a crisis. She's about to do something unusually wild and selfish, which will leave the entire family teetering on the edge of a precipice. Will the family fall? Or will they, when it really matters, be there for each other?

'Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended. A wonderful writer – witty, wise, poignant'
Wendy Holden

'A fantastic slam-dunk page-turner. Funny, enriching . . . page after page I laughed out loud'
Mail on Sunday

'Beautifully observed. Makes you laugh on every page'
The Times

'A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life'
Woman & Home

A Tiny Bit Marvellous

By Dawn French

This first novel by Dawn French is told through the eyes of a mother and her two teenage children. There's seventeen-year-old Dora, a stroppy teenager who's just come out of her first relationship (it lasted a whole six weeks) and who's longing to escape to university; her long-suffering mother, Mo, a child psychiatrist who's baffled by the antagonist behaviour of her children; and sixteen-year-old...

Published: 11/11/2010

Format: Audio Visual

ISBN: 9780141964447

RRP: $39.95