After much searching, the happily married young couple, Amber and Stevie, think they have found the perfect spot in Grimaldi Square. Number 4 is the house of their dreams, despite one or two negative surroundings.
But, upstairs in their new home, seated on an old red sofa is the woman they bought the place from – seventy-nine-year-old, foul-mouthed, straight-talking, wise-cracking Dorothy – who has decided that she’s not going anywhere. As it transpires, Dorothy will be only the first in a line of life-changing surprises.
Friends of Dorothy is a funny, touching novel about a family that is not biological, but logical; a story close to Sandi Toksvig’s heart.
Sandi Toksvig needs, as they say, no introduction and is familiar to UK audiences as a broadcaster. Her TV career includes ‘Call My Bluff’, ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’, ‘QI’, and ‘The Great British Bake Off’. Most recently her ‘Extraordinary Escapes’ series on Channel 4 proved immensely popular.
Much of Sandi’s time is devoted to writing and in 2019 she became president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. She has more than 20 fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults to her credit, has co-authored the musical Big Night Out at the Little Sands Picture Palace Theatre (with Dillie Keane) and the Shakespeare deconstruction The Pocket Dream (with Elly Brewer). She adapted Treasure Island for Leicester Haymarket Theatre (2018} and Mamma Mia the Party (2019). Sandi is an activist for gender equality and co-founded the Women’s Equality Party.
Friends of Dorothy is published by Virago.
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