Dawn French, number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous returns with Oh Dear Silvia.
Everyone knows the real Silvia, don’t they?
Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family and friends gather at her bedside, each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? For Silvia hides a secret. One she can never tell. And as her visitors congregate so the truth about Silvia is slowly revealed. Again, and again and again . . .
Oh Dear Silvia is the brand new novel from one of Britain’s most loved comic writers and the number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous.
Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose.
As a writer, comedian and actor, she has appeared in some of the UK’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.
My Review:
This is my first book by Dawn French and is quite a step away from my usual dark thrillers, but in this strange new world I fancied a bit of light-hearted, easy reading and Oh Dear Silvia provides exactly that.
If you enjoy quirky characters within an amusing story then I am confident you will enjoy this book. Oh Dear Silvia is the tale of 60 year old Silvia, an ex-wife and estranged mother/grandmother who is now in a coma after falling off a balcony. The story is narrated by her ex-husband, her best friend, the nurse, her sister, her cleaner and her estranged daughter and throughout each of the narratives we learn more about Silvia and what brought her to this point in her life.
It’s amusing and witty in places and sad and emotional in others. Will you laugh out loud? Possibly not but it’s a very welcome distraction to everything else that is going on in the world right now.
