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A Tiny Bit Marvellous

By: Dawn French
Narrated by: Dawn French
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The hilarious No. 1 bestseller by comedian and author of Because of You and According to Yes, Dawn French.

Everyone hates the perfect family - so you'll love the Battles.

Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, EVERYTHING and Peter who believes he's quite simply as darling and 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?

A Tiny Bit Marvellous is the number one bestselling novel from one of Britain's favourite comic writers.

© Dawn French 2010 (P) Penguin Audio 2010

 Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Comedy Witty Funny Feel-Good

Critic reviews

Beautifully observed. Makes you laugh on every page
Hilarious. Chortle-out-loud turns of phrase, razor-sharp observations
Fresh, extremely funny
Has she cracked it with her first novel? Yes. Engaging from the first page
Really enjoyable and highly recommended. Dawn French is a wonderful writer - witty, wise and poignant
A hilarious and compelling read
All stars
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As she narrates her own novel and she is such a familiar voice and character herself it is difficult to separate her from the story here. It is very funny and you can clearly identify all the Dawn French alter ego's in the characters. Did find it a bit repetitive in style and the story didn't move on very well for me. Stopped listening at chapter 30 as found my mind was wandering. Will go back to it though.

Very typical Dawn French

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First Dawn French book I have listened to and really enjoyed the story. Dawn's narration really added something, especially when she voiced Dora, I used to look forward to this character the most. Highly recommend and have just bought another DF book on my kindle!

Love Dawn's narration

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Full of life in the raw no holes barred entertainment of the ups and fundamentally downs of family life

Must read its great

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Love the fact that Dawn narrated it, great story with a feel good factor worth the read

It's Dawnie

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I imagine there are many people who read this and recognised at least one other person, even in caricature. I saw parts of myself in parts of Mo (although she is taller and slimmer than me) and knew that Dawn French had been spying on me, my family and friends. I laughed and winced and laughed.

I know these people!

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