Possible Clues:

• Book's loads of fun, ending with a short joke
• Literary genre named after a type of oven
• Feature of kitchen sink drama's last thing you'd see in this?
• Potboiler epic?
• Middle-class novel a good laugh, with a degree of reflection?
• Middle-class tale is a riot, almost repeated
• Story going either way
• Warming tale?
• One may read this either way
• Story about middle-class people