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One Day I Shall Astonish the World

Nina Stibbe
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      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'A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer.' Meg Mason'Wonderful . . . Her best yet' Kathy Burke'I loved it so SO much! Funnier than ever but with a new depth and maturity' Marian KeyesSusan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right choices about life, love, work, and, most importantly, friendship.Nina Stibbe's new novel is the story of the wonderful and sometimes surprising path of friendship: from its conspiratorial beginnings, along its irritating wrong turns, to its final gratifying destination.'A lovingly observed testament to the complexities and profundities of female friendship' Elizabeth Day'Nina Stibbe is not just very funny but absolutely life-affirming' Jenny Colgan'Stibbe writes some of the best-turned comic sentences in contemporary writing. Like Susan, she makes it look easier than it must be' Sunday Times'Nina Stibbe is one of our funniest novelists - it's time to take her seriously' Daily Telegraph'Stibbe is one of the all-time greats' Daisy Buchanan'Clever and funny, it takes a sharp look at the intricacies of marriage, friendship, work and driving. As with all Stibbe's writing there is a pleasingly perfect balance of wisdom with jokes' Cathy Rentzenbrink'For beautifully funny and well-observed comic writing, Nina Stibbe is your go-to author. In her latest release, a tale of lifelong friendship between Susan and Norma, she explores the mistakes, rivalries and love we all experience in life' Stylist'One of the great comic writers of our time' Irish Times
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Nina Stibbe EAN: 9780241451175 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 266 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-04-20 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern and Contemporary romance, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place

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      Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of two works of non-fiction - Love, Nina and An Almost Perfect Christmas - and three previous novels: Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge, and Reasons to be Cheerful, which is the only novel to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC TV series. Nina Stibbe lives in Cornwall.
      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'A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer.' Meg Mason'Wonderful . . . Her best yet' Kathy Burke'I loved it so SO much! Funnier than ever but with a new depth and maturity' Marian KeyesSusan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right choices about life, love, work, and, most importantly, friendship.Nina Stibbe's new novel is the story of the wonderful and sometimes surprising path of friendship: from its conspiratorial beginnings, along its irritating wrong turns, to its final gratifying destination.'A lovingly observed testament to the complexities and profundities of female friendship' Elizabeth Day'Nina Stibbe is not just very funny but absolutely life-affirming' Jenny Colgan'Stibbe writes some of the best-turned comic sentences in contemporary writing. Like Susan, she makes it look easier than it must be' Sunday Times'Nina Stibbe is one of our funniest novelists - it's time to take her seriously' Daily Telegraph'Stibbe is one of the all-time greats' Daisy Buchanan'Clever and funny, it takes a sharp look at the intricacies of marriage, friendship, work and driving. As with all Stibbe's writing there is a pleasingly perfect balance of wisdom with jokes' Cathy Rentzenbrink'For beautifully funny and well-observed comic writing, Nina Stibbe is your go-to author. In her latest release, a tale of lifelong friendship between Susan and Norma, she explores the mistakes, rivalries and love we all experience in life' Stylist'One of the great comic writers of our time' Irish Times
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Nina Stibbe EAN: 9780241451175 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 266 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-04-20 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern and Contemporary romance, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place

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      Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of two works of non-fiction - Love, Nina and An Almost Perfect Christmas - and three previous novels: Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge, and Reasons to be Cheerful, which is the only novel to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC TV series. Nina Stibbe lives in Cornwall.

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