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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 27/02/2014
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ISBN: 9780241965092
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
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Weight: 245g
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RRP: £8.99
* * * WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS POPULAR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * * *
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life by Nina Stibbe is the laugh-out-loud story of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family
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. And the family, busy discussing such arcane subjects as how to swear in German or the merits (or otherwise) of turkey mince, were delighted by her lack of skills. Love, Nina is the collection of letters she wrote home gloriously describing her 'domestic' life, the unpredictable houseguests and the cat everyone loved to hate.
'I adored this book and could quote from it forever' Nick Hornby
'Funny and sharp: no book this year has made me laugh more' John Lanchester, Guardian
'The funniest book I've read in ages' Sunday Times
'An unassuming comic genius' Independent
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 27/02/2014
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ISBN: 9780241965092
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
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Weight: 245g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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I adored this book, and could quote from it forever. It's real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving, and contains more than one reference to Arsenal FC
Nick Hornby, The Believer
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Last year, we had Roger Mortimer's splendidly bufferish Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son. Love, Nina - funny, quirky, vivid and touching - is every bit its equal
Daily Mail (Book of the Week)
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I loved this book. What a beady eye she has for domestic life, and how deliciously fresh and funny she is - a real discovery.
Deborah Moggach, author of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'
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Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: Love, Nina might be the most charming book I've ever read
Maria Semple, author of 'Where’d You Go, Bernadette'
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Funny, warm, life-affirming and accutely well-observed, Love, Nina is a gift that will keep on giving . . . A hoot
Metro
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The snippets of dialogue and vingettes evoke the characters and atmosphere brilliantly . . . Funny, sharp
Evening Standard
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Even if Adrian Mole wrote about the Primrose Hill set, it wouldn't be as funny and absorbing as Love, Nina
Psychologies
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Like a 1980s Mary Poppins with a sense of humour
Stylist
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The funniest new writer to arrive in years
Andrew O'Hagan
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Adrian Mole meets Mary Poppins mashed up in literary north London . . . Enormous fun
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