A Tiny Bit Marvellous
Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Paperback Published on: 23/06/2011
£9.99
Synopsis
A Tiny Bit Marvellous is comedian Dawn French's hilarious pageturner.
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?
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780141046341
- Number of pages: 448
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 27 mm
Customer Reviews
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i really wanted to love this but...
...I didn't. I was looking forward to reading this but actually found I didn't really engage with any of the characters. Each of the chapters is written li... READ MORE
Offensive, give it a wide berth!
I found the offensive language a complete turn-off from page one. It was a huge barrier to following the shallow narrative. I'm not very keen on books wher... READ MORE
struggled to keep reading
I quite like dawn French and thought this book was going to be as it describes on the cover 'a page turner'. It was'nt.
I did enjoy the character of Oscar ... READ MORE
not what i was expecting...
I was actually really looking forward to this having been a Dawn french fan for years and was disappoitned to find I couldn't finish it.
This is a book fro... READ MORE
Okay
This book was okay however I would have expected it to have been funny. A bit disappointed with it. I don't like the way that it is set out in diary entrys... READ MORE
A Tiny Bit Pants
It's ok but rather weak, wouldn't choose to read another book by Dawn French going on this effort.
FAN TAS TIC
A real good read so funny and life like .Could not put it down
My teenage daughter should read this.
This isn't Vicar of Dibley or French and Saunders and if that is what you are expecting you will be sorely disappointed.
However, forget Dawn French's voi... READ MORE
A big bit of loveliness.
The first novel by Dawn French, ‘A Tiny Bit Marvellous’ tells the tale of a typical, if not slightly eccentric, modern British family. The book is centred ... READ MORE
Expected Better
I have always admired Dawn French and was excited to read her first novel. Although I found it easy-going and sometimes amusing, it didn't live up to my ex... READ MORE
Dreadful ...
So disappointed - didn't like any of the characters with the exception of Peter/Oscar who I quite warmed to. Thought the mother/daughter relationship was d... READ MORE
Disappointing - I really wanted to like it
Being a Dawn French fan, I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't warm to the characters or take to the plot.
Disappointing
Although I am a big Dawn French fan and this book is easy to read, it had little substance to it, felt like the beginning and end of a book without a middl... READ MORE
Very Disappointed
This book was irritating (underlined words really put me off) and the story was shallow as were the characters. I consider it a waste of money.
Worth a read
This book has had some tough reviews but I'm happy that I gave it a try. It definitely won't win any awards for it's writing style however I did find it en... READ MORE
Disappointed
disappointed with this book when I started reading it. I was so looking forward to it. But I didnt like the underlined writing as other people have also sa... READ MORE
Dissapointed!
The blurb said laugh out loud, hilarious. Unfortunately I didn't even laugh!
However, I still enjoyed the book. Some of the characters came to life - espe... READ MORE
VERY very funny
WOW! Dawn French has shown herself to be such a tallented writer with this, her debut novel.
The humour and wit is second to none, the family psychology an... READ MORE
A Tiny Bit Marvellous
This is a highly entertaining insight into the workings of a family struggling through their daily lives with two teens, a mother rapidly approaching fifty... READ MORE
the only book I have left on a plane- terrible!
Really disappointing! Cherish every book and love to pass them on to others but was so horrified that I had wasted time reading it, I left it on the plane,
A Tiny bit marvellous
Its an amazing story, the story of what family's really think of each other! Love it! :)
Big Dissapointment .......
I'm a big fan of Dawn French. and I like her show
But. this, I hated
. Just isn't interesting and after reading around 70 pages I just skimmed the last few... READ MORE
Not her Best :(
I was hard pushed to put a rating to this at all, it was very disappointing and would not buy more by her based on this, sorry.
OKAY
Difficult at the start to get into, it did however start to get a little more interesting and I did eventually finish the book.
Positively Marvellous
I am astounded to see these negative reviews, and so I'am writing my own to set the record straight. This is an excellent book. It is very well written ind... READ MORE
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