Oh Dear Silvia, Dawn French

Read in Hardback, after recommendation from Amazon, and having loved "A Tiny Bit Marvellous", Dawn French's first novel and "Dear Fatty" her memoir.

This has a great central premise - Silvia lies in hospital in a coma having fallen from a balcony.  A succession of visitors passes through her room, and we hear both their private thoughts and their monologues with the inert Silvia, although we never hear from her.  Our perception of Silvia as wife, mother, sister, employer and lover changes as the book goes on and more of the plot is revealed.

I very much enjoyed this book; I liked the different voices of all the characters and although I thought the plot was fairly obvious I nevertheless enjoyed watching it being played out.