According to Yes

According to YES is an optimist’s dream, and a cynic’s nightmare. The third novel of Fellowship BAFTA-winning actress and comedienne Dawn French, best known for her hilarious small screen interactions with Jennifer Saunders and her side line as The Vicar of Dibley’s riotously bubbly priest Geraldine, this is a book that opens with the word ‘fuck’ and goes on to introduce a jolly female protagonist whose very name is enough to conjure up the red-brogue-and-floppy-hair-bow-wearing primary school that she is. Yearning for a baby and fresh from a painful break-up, Rosie Kitto is already keen, it seems, on everything, yet she still makes a pledge to spend a year saying a resounding YES to everything that comes her way. YES to playing Mary Poppins on New York’s Upper East Side to the twin offspring of a loaded and hateful couple who are fresh from a divorce. YES to ice cream (always). YES to sex with multiple partners. YES, YES, YES to facing and embracing life, warts and all: all its mistakes, all its mess, all its madness.