One Family Weekend Turns Life-Affirming and Unforgettable
Dawn French's warm family novel unfolds across one unforgettable day as Etta gathers loved ones to share a secret. Readers who like life-affirming stories about family, farewell and ordinary love will appreciate its humour, tenderness and quiet courage.
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One Family Weekend Turns Life-Affirming and Unforgettable
Dawn French's warm family novel unfolds across one unforgettable day as Etta gathers loved ones to share a secret. Readers who like life-affirming stories about family, farewell and ordinary love will appreciate its humour, tenderness and quiet courage.
- Book Synopsis
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Etta is sixty-eight years old. Happy, healthy and an active participant in her world, she’s gathered her family together for an unforgettable weekend.
Tick.
At 5am that Saturday morning, Etta wakes her daughter, her granddaughter, her son and her daughter-in-law up to lead everyone down to the beach.
To ‘Etta’s Hollow’, where a roaring fire has already been lit.
Drowsy but delighted – the sun is just starting to rise for a glorious dawn – Etta’s family bask in the beauty of the moment. A memory to be cherished forever.
Tick.
Until twenty minutes later, when Etta announces to her assembled beloveds something as shocking as it is alarming.
‘I have brought you all down to the beach this morning to tell you something important. You see, the thing is, today is my last day alive.’
Boom.
Over the next twenty-four hours, Etta and her family are about to have the most surprising, affecting and life-affirming day of all their lives.
Ideal for readers who:
- Respond to family novels built around one unforgettable, emotionally charged day.
- Hope for an older heroine whose choice gives the story its force and tenderness.
- Appreciate warmth and humour around conversations that are anything but easy.
- Appreciate life-affirming fiction with mortality, honesty and love close to the surface.
- About The Author
- Dawn French has been making people laugh for 30 years. As a writer, comedian and actor, she has appeared in some of this country's most long-running and celebrated shows, including French and Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley, Jam and Jerusalem, and more recently, Roger and Val Have Just Got In. Her first three novels, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Oh Dear Silvia and According to YES, are all Sunday Times bestsellers.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780241818947
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph, (21 May 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 432
- Weight
- 520 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 154 x 34 mm
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