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  • Published: 5 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780718187569
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $55.00

Me. You. Not a Diary

The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller




Dawn's first non-fiction project in almost a decade, following on from three consecutive Sunday Times bestselling novels

Dawn French has written a new book for 2017! It's INTERACTIVE - the reader and Dawn will spend a year together travelling through the days, the months and the seasons of the year to make SENSE of it. And have some fun along the way . . .

  • Published: 5 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780718187569
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $55.00

About the author

Dawn French

Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose. As a writer, comedian and actor, she has appeared in some of Britain's most long-running, cherished and celebrated shows, including French and Saunders, The Comic Strip Presents . . . , Murder Most Horrid, The Vicar of Dibley, Jam and Jerusalem, Lark Rise to Candleford and, more recently, Roger and Val Have Just Got In.

Her number-one bestselling memoir, Dear Fatty, was published to critical acclaim in 2008. A Tiny Bit Marvellous, her first novel, was a great success, going straight to number one and selling over half a million copies. Oh Dear Silvia is her second novel.

UK comedy star Dawn French is a judge for the 2013 series of Australia's Got Talent on the Nine Network.

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Praise for Me. You. Not a Diary

This is Dawn French's fabulous new non-fiction book: take a lovely ramble through the year together with Dawn. Think of it as Dawn's diary, personalized by you . . . perfection.

from the publisher's description

Heavens, she's a funny lady

Sunday Telegraph

A national treasure. Loyal, self-deprecating and garrulous, French's story makes for entertaining reading. This is an original book, and will delight her fans and, indeed anyone with a sense of humour

Mail on Sunday (on 'Dear Fatty')

Dawn tackles the big ones - love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood - head on

Guardian

A wonderful writer - witty, wise, poignant

Daily Mail

Makes you laugh on every page

The Times

Wreck This Journal meets Dawn French's ruminations on the seasons, ageing and more - this is a companion piece to help you through life itself. A very good idea

Stylist

A manual for how to be a good person, make peace with your life and create your own happiness

Sunday Times

This book is inspired!!!

Nadiya Hussain

It's as if she's in your head. Feisty. Intimate. True. LOVE IT!

Helen Lederer

[It's] beautiful, like Dawn, and stuffed full of goodies

Jo Brand

Hours of joy

Emma Freud

One brilliant, inspiring woman . . . I'm going to love spending a year with you

Emma Kennedy

I spent a good 10 minutes snogging it

Sarah Cox

I love it. Lots of my friends are getting sent one now!!!

Deborah Meaden

Dawn French will get you thinking with Me. You. A Diary. That's Christmas sorted!

Fabulous Magazine

A lovely concept . . . it's very intimate

Matt Baker, BBC The One Show

A lovely stocking filler

Jane Garvey, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

Me. You. A Diary reveals what [Dawn] has learned in her 60 years and features blank pages for readers to include their own entries. A mellow, gentle read with words of wisdom

The Independent

[A] must-read to pass on to friends and family of all ages

Woman & Home

Who wouldn't want to spend a year in the company of Dawn French?

BEST BOOKS OF 2017, Best

The most fun you'll have with a book all year . . . The perfect stocking filler

Mayfair & Marylebone Edition

Top tome for THIS YEAR'S STOCKINGS! Start a journal alongside Dawn's witty outlook on life. This will have you laughing about your year

Prima

This woman is a warm hug in human form - just thinking about her makes me smile. Dawn spreads joy in abundance. She is dazzling

Lorraine Kelly