'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls, author of One DayWhat does it mean to start again at sixty?Nina Stibbe is surprised to find herself asking this question as she leaves married life behind in Cornwall and heads back to London after twenty years away for what she calls ‘a year-long sabbatical’.She takes up lodgings at the house of writer Deborah Moggach, unprepared for how she, and the city, has changed and now wondering whether freedom is all it’s cracked up to be . . .As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour'An utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend' - Marian Keyes'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry'No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly' - Katherine Heiny'So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed . . . I loved it' - India Knight
CONTRIBUTORS: Nina Stibbe
EAN: 9781035025312
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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HEIGHT: 197 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
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GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Mid-Life, HUMOR / Topic / Men, Women & Relationships
WIDTH: 130 cm
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London, Greater London, c 2020 to c 2029, Autobiography: writers, Memoirs, Diaries, letters and journals, Family and health, Humour
Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise, A unique comic voice, endlessly funny. Nina makes me laugh so much, No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly. No one does a better job of making the ordinary phenomenal, Painfully funny, but also deeply moving. I never wanted it to end, What an utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend. I'm so sad it's over
Nina Stibbe is the author of six books. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2014 National Book Awards, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. The book was adapted by Nick Hornby for BBC Television. She is the author of four novels, all of which have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Her third novel, Reasons to be Cheerful is the only novel to date to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award for comic fiction. Her latest novel, One Day I Shall Astonish The World, was published in April 2022.