Dial A for Aunties - Jesse Sutanto

 

Description

Your family would kill to see you happy

‘Whip-smart, original and so funny. I found it impossible to put down and lost count of the number of times I laughed out loud’ Beth O’Leary, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Switch

‘ARE YOU…DEAD?’
OH MY GOD. I THINK HE IS.
When Meddy Chan accidentally kills her blind date, she turns to her aunties for help. Their meddling set her up on the date so they kind of owe her.

WELL, THAT DIDN’T QUITE GO TO PLAN.
Although hiding this goddamn dead body is going to be harder than they thought especially when her family’s wedding business has THE biggest wedding of the year happening right now.

IT’S PRETTY BAD TIMING REALLY.
It turns out the wedding venue just happens to be managed by Meddy’s ex, aka the one who got away. It’s the worst time to see him again, or…is it? Can Meddy finally find love and make her overbearing family happy?

Review

This book had me laughing out loud - so funny and clever.

Meddy Chan has an Indo/Chinese heritage and with that comes a tight family network of Aunts. Sometimes they interfere and sometimes they are there to help, like when she's just murdered her blind date!

If you think of a farce featuring a dead body and the disposal of it by an everyday family of women who have no idea what they are doing, then this is the outline of the book. What I was not expecting was the layers to the story and the twists that came with them. Brilliantly written and playing on the age divide between Meddy and her family with regard to social media etiquette was so much fun to read.

Then there is the rom com aspect. We get flashbacks to when Meddy dated Nathan years ago, and now just when she's trying to dispose of a dead body he turns up. She's not over him and he's just as good as she remembers him, expect now he's got the wrong idea of her.

As you might imagine the Aunts and Meddy's Mother are the stars of this book, their dialogue amongst themselves and the infighting is hilarious. If you are looking for a good read, with some laughs and surprises, then this is the book for you. Any age will enjoy the book as you have the whole age range covered by this intriguing family.

I felt all through reading the book that this would make such a wonderful film. So no surprise to find it is being made into one by Netflix - I'll definitely be watching it.

I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars. My thanks to netgalley for the ARC to review.