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Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

Autor Nina Stibbe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 2016
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 the cat.

Sam: I hate emptying the dishwasher.
MK: We all do, that's why we take turns.
Will: I hate the cat.
MK: We all do, that's why we take turns.
In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and triumphs as a nanny to a London family. There's a catnobodylikes, a visiting dog called Ted Hughes (Ted for short) and suppertime visits from a local playwright. Not to mention the two boys, their favourite football teams, and rude words, a very broad-minded mother and assorted nice chairs.
From the mystery of the unpaid milk bill and the avoidance of nuclear war to mealtime discussions on pie filler, the greats of English literature, swearing in German and sexually transmitted diseases,Love, Ninais a wonderful celebration of bad food, good company and the relative merits of Thomas Hardy and Enid Blyton.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241976715
ISBN-10: 0241976715
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Media tie-in
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

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
Last year, we had Roger Mortimer's splendidly bufferishDear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son.Love, Nina- funny, quirky, vivid and touching - is every bit its equal
I loved this book. What a beady eye she has for domestic life, andhow deliciously fresh and funny she is- a real discovery.
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness:Love, Ninamight be the most charming book I've ever read
Funny, warm, life-affirming and accutely well-observed,Love, Ninais a gift that will keep on giving . . . A hoot
The snippets of dialogue and vingettesevoke the characters and atmosphere brilliantly. . . Funny, sharp
Even if Adrian Mole wrote about the Primrose Hill set, it wouldn't be asfunnyandabsorbingasLove, Nina
Likea 1980s Mary Poppins with a sense of humour
Thefunniest new writerto arrive in years
Adrian Mole meets Mary Poppins mashed up in literary north London . . .Enormous fun
This isthe funniest book I've read in ages, a complete treat
Nina has an ear for dialoguethat would not disgrace Pinter (though her dialogue is pacier)
This is by farthe funniest, most genuinely heart-warming account of the everyday I've read. Stibbe is an unassuming comic genius
Stibbe isa native genius in the form
Absolutely lovely . . .Do read this: it's hilariousand will make you happy as the nights get darker
In the end, what we take away is simplythe art of writing a stonking good letter
Love, Ninais suffused with as much warmth as it is with wit,the kind of book you find yourself reading out to whoever is within earshot. It deserves to be the left-field breakout hit of the year
A real life-enhancer of a book. . . Hysterically funny
Very, very funny
Stibbe has a knack for recounting dialogue, and Alan Bennett's discussions with the children are priceless
A cross betweenAdrian MoleandI Capture the Castle
Very funny and sharp
Funny and sharp and has a distinctive streak of wildness:no book this year has made me laugh more
Addictively funny
For Christmas I'm hoping for Nina Stibbe'sLove, Nina
Her letters home to her sister aresuffused with an air of wide-eyed mischief
Gentle and sharp, the book isfull of terrible food and great insightson subjects ranging from hidden rubbish bins (good) to Geoffrey Chaucer (bad)
This collection of letters to Stibbe's sister isa hilarious portrait of the London literati by a naïve yet comically gifted correspondent
Full of wry humour, the book ischarming, warm-hearted and gently but irresistibly funny
So fleet is Stibbe's turn of phrase and so sharp her ear for dialogue that . . .I doubt there has been a more sparkling collection of letters published
Love, Ninacollects herhilarious letters hometo Leicester
Stibbe is an acute observer of human foibles, and this isthe funniest collection of letters since Roger Mortimer'sDear Lupin
There's somethingirresistibleabout Nina's wide-eyed naughtiness
Properly heartwarming
A hoot.Her funny and well-observed letters offer a slice of 1980s life
Wonderful and genuinely hilarious. An extremely honest and affectionate account of some extraordinary people
I would urge anyone who's feeling sad to readLove, Nina. Nina already feels like my best friend.It's DELIGHTFUL
Loved loved lovedLove, Nina-possibly the funniest book ever. Absolutely brilliant. Am still chortling to self
Each letter is a perfect insightful little gem and Nina has a dagger-sharp ear for dialogue.I honestly felt like my best friend had emigrated when I had to put this book down at the end
I can't remember a book since Adrian Mole that so brilliantly, drily nailed day-to-day life inBRILLIANT, faux-naive prose
Amazingly funny
Observant, funny, terse, at times a bit rude . . .These letters are winning from the start
[Stibbe] has a flair for deadpan understatement reminiscent of Helen Fielding's.You'll find yourself laughing out loud but also touched by the book's depiction of family as it should be
If your safe place is an English person writing a funny letter (it's mine) then readLove, Nina