A Tiny Bit Marvellous

by Dawn French | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0141046341 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Beqi of Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on 5/5/2013
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3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Beqi from Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Sunday, May 5, 2013
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.


My thoughts
It took a while for me to get into this book, and certainly to warm to the various characters that make up the Battle family. I found teenage Dora HUGELY irritating and every one of those superfluous 'likes' grated on me. It's probably a good thing I don't have teenage children, as I suspect it's probably quite realistic. I found Peter/Oscar quite amusing but otherwise? They all annoyed me...until I got towards the end of the book, and then I warmed to them! It's a book about family life, and all of the stresses and strains that tend to come with it. I'd probably be interested to read the follow-up book Dawn French is working on at the moment, now I 'get' the odd family within the books!

Journal Entry 2 by Beqi at Bookcrossing Convention 2015 in Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (4/10/2015 UTC) at Bookcrossing Convention 2015 in Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom

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To be added to the book buffet at the Oxford Convention 2015 :D

Journal Entry 3 by d-vineland at Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany on Wednesday, April 22, 2015
I like "French and Saunders", so I am curious how she is as a writer.

And that's a "humpf" in August: I should have read the text at the back of the book, or read the first pages: I know, such a lot of cliches is supposed to be funny. Well, it isn't. Didn't make it past the first 50 pages, read cursorily

Journal Entry 4 by d-vineland at BC UnCon 2015 in Bremerhaven, Bremen Germany on Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (9/25/2015 UTC) at BC UnCon 2015 in Bremerhaven, Bremen Germany

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Viel Vergnügen!

Über einen Eintrag würde ich mich sehr freuen. Das ist problemlos auch als "anonymer Finder" möglich.

Journal Entry 5 by aNorthernLight at Bremerhaven, Bremen Germany on Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Auf der UnCon gefangen, Vielen Dank!

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