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Love, Nina

Despatches from Family Life

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Love, Nina

By: Nina Stibbe
Narrated by: Nina Stibbe
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS POPULAR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014

A laugh-out-loud true story of the trials and tribulations of being a live-in nanny in 1980s London and inspired a major TV series starring Helena Bonham Carter.

*****

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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Critic Reviews

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')
The funniest new writer to arrive in years (Andrew O'Hagan)
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')
Adrian Mole meets Mary Poppins mashed up in literary north London . . . Enormous fun
All stars
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Loved this...such a happy bio of a time in Nina's earlier life. Cookie, crazy, innocent fun times working as nanny to literary editor MK Wilmers...with a lovely smattering of national treasure -Alan Bennett

Funny, funny, funny

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I adored this book. I chuckled all the way through. I’ve shared it and gifted it - it’s absolutely lovely.

Brilliantly funny and true

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Read this when published, such a delight to hear the author read it. It’s been a few years between the reading and the listening (8? 10 years?) so a bit like hearing/reading for the first time. Delightful

Fucking love this book

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I thorough enjoyed listening to this audiobook. It is beautifully narrated and laugh out loud funny.

Wonderful!

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Very British sense of humour and the perfect nostalgia for a British child of the 80’s like me.
A sweet, irreverent and chucklesome look at a normal life, told through the eyes of a barefoot London Nanny, living amongst witty, clever people and artsy, literary types like ‘Bennett’. Get the version ready by the author - I love her dry delivery.

Funny and Real

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