Ten years after the publication of the prize-winning Love, Nina comes the author’s diary of her return to London in her sixty-first year.
Being a nanny is great. Not like a job really, just like living in someone else's life. Today before breakfast Sam had to empty the dishwasher and Will had to feed... Læs mere
Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2017. This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the... Læs mere
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2019! From the author of Love, Nina comes an ode to the agonies and embarrassments of being a teenager in 1970s... Læs mere
Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction! From the author of Love, Nina comes an ode to the agonies and embarrassments of being a teenager in 1970s... Læs mere
My sister and I and our little brother were born into a very good situation and apart from the odd new thing life was humdrum and comfortable until an evening in 1970 when my mother... Læs mere
"Originally published in Great Britain by Viking, March 2019"--Title page verso.
In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea how to cook, look after children or who the weirdos were who called round.
From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime. Susan and Norma have been best... Læs mere