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Oh Dear Silvia
Oh Dear Silvia
Jan 15, 2026 11:05 PM

Author:Dawn French

Oh Dear Silvia

Discover the gloriously heartwarming and funny novel from No. 1 bestselling author of Women's Prize shortlisted Richard & Judy pick BECAUSE OF YOU, Dawn French

'A wonderful writer - witty, wise, poignant' DAILY MAIL

'Hilarious. My top book' THE TIMES

__________

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 . . .

__________

PRAISE FOR DAWN FRENCH:

'Fantastic, passionate, compassionate, so much wisdom, a lot of humour, very real and credible' BERNARDINE EVARISTO

'I adored it. So charming, wise and brilliantly written' MARIAN KEYES

'Think the Vicar of Dibley, without the dog collar' INDEPENDENT

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

'A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner. Funny, enriching . . . page after page I laughed out loud' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'A hilarious snapshot of family life in the twenty-first century' SUNDAY TIMES

'Extremely funny' SUNDAY TIMES

'Side-splitting, darkly humorous' HEAT

'Makes you laugh on every page' THE TIMES

'A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life' WOMAN & HOME

'Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended' DAILY MAIL

Reviews

Beautifully observed. Makes you laugh on every page

—— The Times

Hilarious. Chortle-out-loud turns of phrase, razor-sharp observations

—— Stylist

Really enjoyable and highly recommended. Dawn French is a wonderful writer - witty, wise and poignant

—— Daily Mail

A history of ideas that possesses all the drama of a novel, all the immediacy of headline news.

—— Michiko Kakutani , New York Times

Harwood, master of creeping Victorian horror, does it again in his latest tale of pervasive evil and madness

—— Booklist

It is a brilliantly constructed 21st-century take on a 19th-century literary form and a satisfactorily confusing read

—— Good Book Guide
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