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.
Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of Love, Nina, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards, and the massively acclaimed novel Man at the Helm, which was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. She lives in Cornwall with her partner and two children.
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
*The Believer*
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)*
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'*
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'*
Funny, warm, life-affirming and accutely well-observed, Love, Nina
is a gift that will keep on giving . . . A hoot
*Metro*
The snippets of dialogue and vingettes evoke the characters and
atmosphere brilliantly . . . Funny, sharp
*Evening Standard*
Even if Adrian Mole wrote about the Primrose Hill set, it wouldn't
be as funny and absorbing as Love, Nina
*Psychologies*
Like a 1980s Mary Poppins with a sense of humour
*Stylist*
The funniest new writer to arrive in years
*Andrew O'Hagan*
Adrian Mole meets Mary Poppins mashed up in literary north London .
. . Enormous fun
*Bookseller*
This is the funniest book I've read in ages, a complete treat
*Sunday Times*
Nina has an ear for dialogue that would not disgrace Pinter (though
her dialogue is pacier)
*Observer*
This is by far the funniest, most genuinely heart-warming account
of the everyday I've read. Stibbe is an unassuming comic genius
*Independent*
Stibbe is a native genius in the form
*Guardian*
Absolutely lovely . . . Do read this: it's hilarious and will make
you happy as the nights get darker
*Emerald Street*
In the end, what we take away is simply the art of writing a
stonking good letter
*Mail on Sunday*
Love, Nina is 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
*Sunday Express*
A real life-enhancer of a book . . . Hysterically funny
*India Knight*
Very, very funny
*BBC Radio 2*
Stibbe has a knack for recounting dialogue, and Alan Bennett's
discussions with the children are priceless
*The Times*
A cross between Adrian Mole and I Capture the Castle
*Irish Times*
Very funny and sharp
*Guardian 'Books of the Year'*
Funny and sharp and has a distinctive streak of wildness: no book
this year has made me laugh more
*Guardian 'Books of the Year'*
Addictively funny
*Rachel Johnson*
For Christmas I'm hoping for Nina Stibbe's Love, Nina
*Observer 'Books of the Year'*
Her letters home to her sister are suffused with an air of
wide-eyed mischief
*Spectator 'Books of the Year'*
Gentle and sharp, the book is full of terrible food and great
insights on subjects ranging from hidden rubbish bins (good) to
Geoffrey Chaucer (bad)
*FT 'Books of the Year'*
This collection of letters to Stibbe's sister is a hilarious
portrait of the London literati by a naïve yet comically gifted
correspondent
*FT 'Books of the Year'*
Full of wry humour, the book is charming, warm-hearted and gently
but irresistibly funny
*Sunday Times 'Books of the Year'*
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
*New Statesman*
Love, Nina collects her hilarious letters home to Leicester
*YOU Magazine 'Books of the Year'*
Stibbe is an acute observer of human foibles, and this is the
funniest collection of letters since Roger Mortimer's Dear
Lupin
*Mail on Sunday 'Books of the Year'*
There's something irresistible about Nina's wide-eyed
naughtiness
*Spectator*
Properly heartwarming
*Financial Times*
A hoot. Her funny and well-observed letters offer a slice of 1980s
life
*Evening Standard 'Books of the Year'*
Wonderful and genuinely hilarious. An extremely honest and
affectionate account of some extraordinary people
*Mark Williams*
I would urge anyone who's feeling sad to read Love, Nina. Nina
already feels like my best friend. It's DELIGHTFUL
*Marian Keyes*
Loved loved loved Love, Nina - possibly the funniest book ever.
Absolutely brilliant. Am still chortling to self
*Gill Hornby*
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
*Lisa Jewell*
I can't remember a book since Adrian Mole that so brilliantly,
drily nailed day-to-day life in BRILLIANT, faux-naive prose
*Caitlin Moran*
Amazingly funny
*Times Magazine*
Observant, funny, terse, at times a bit rude . . . These letters
are winning from the start
*New York Times*
[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
*People Magazine*
If your safe place is an English person writing a funny letter
(it's mine) then read Love, Nina
*Lena Dunham*
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