Because of You: The beautifully uplifting Richard & Judy bestseller

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Everything that you witness in the book is driven love, especially what happens in the final chapters. It’s to the book’s credit that there is a surprising amount of thematic nuance touched upon, with both families caught up in the story being mixed race, and Hope’s parents suffering with addiction problems, but sadly I felt none of these issues were explored with the depth or impact they could have had. Not that I really needed an excuse, but the blurb intrigued me and after reading back to back crime titles, as is the norm, it made for a nice change of pace. In contrast to the three main characters, all of whom I liked and felt genuinely invested in, the male supporting characters (the women’s respective partners) are all very one dimensional, to the point of feeling like caricatures: we have the terrible husband, the wonderful, selfless husband, and the comic-relief joker.

Sal Flint has written and published over 300 chapter books for children and has recently branched out into writing picture books about topics close to her heart, such as dementia and generating kindness. Fundamentally I found the plot uncomfortable and whilst it’s not a bad book, I’m not sure why it’s being so highly praised. I read this book due to its surprise (to me) longlisting for the 2021 Women’s Prize – an explicit sign from the judges (the chair of whom blurbs the front cover of the book) that they were looking for a range of books from literary to storytellers. Because Of You is Dawn French's stunning new novel, told with her signature humour, warmth and so much love. The constant misquoting and mixing of sayings - 'wolves in cheap clothing' for one example - but it kept what could have been a very tough subject light, funny.You can feel the devastation of the mother who has lost everything, balanced against the mother who has it all - the longed for child, even if their circumstances are not all they would wish them to be.

I feel a bit like a sucker who bought this book because it was written by Dawn French, which is precisely why I believe it got published as it is. jeden bohater zostaje nakryty na zdradzie tłumaczy się, że przecież jego trenerka (mhm) miała ubrane BIAŁE OBCISŁE SPODNIE.She is best-known for starring in and writing her comedy sketch show, French and Saunders, alongside her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. Warning: Stillbirth and a stolen newborn are mentioned in this review as they are brought up in this book. The author clearly has had a lot of fun constructing him but then, she has a very suitable ministerial model from which to work, in all his full awfulness and venal ugliness. The intensity of the crisis would be incredibly hard to manage for everyone involved – and especially for Minnie; and to be honest a quick cuppa and apology really don’t cut it. Because of You feels like it ought not to be a book but to be rushed, but the reality is it is a book that is almost impossible not to race through.

It examines relationships between mothers and children, between husbands and wives and fathers and children. I really wanted to like this book as I’ve read and reread “A Tiny Bit Marvellous” many times, finding it warm and snug and insightful. I listened to this as an audiobook and as it is narrated by the author herself, there is a real quality of diction and a good variety of voices and accents. I listened to this on audio with Dawn French reading it and was very enjoyable in the fact she could express how she wanted the story and words to come over to its reader. Be prepared that you may need tissues because in those dying pages Dawn French elicits such a reaction from the reader, creates such heartfelt emotion in Hope's letter to Minnie, that is it a hard heart who won't be moved by what they read.Instead I found it quite odd, yet some characters, such as a narcissistic male depressingly familiar from many other stories. The events invite the reader to be drawn in and not only understand the story, but feel what the characters are feeling. The humor in all situations felt forced to me, the characters and their behaviors illogical and unrealistic especially for the situations they were in, also no character actually had real characteristics. The slapstick manner in which it’s done though stretches credulity (and my patience and tolerance) to breaking point. It plays with your sympathies, challenges your perceptions and preconceptions and really gets under your skin.

About how their lives intersect and the way in which a tragedy leads to a snap decision, and the impact that it has on two families who are most definitely chalk and cheese.Hope has escaped her own fairly dysfunctional background in Bristol and loves her indpendent life, where she is a cleaner in a London hospital. This shows that those assumptions were well-founded, and honestly, I think Dawn French would rather I didn’t hate-read her novel just because it’s on the Women’s Prize longlist! Hope gave her whole self to Minnie, but she never had the material comfort that living with her biological parents would have given her. At its core, the novel is very much a look at grief, what it means to be a parent, and the bond between mother and child.