1
of
1
Love, Nina
Despatches from Family Life
Ratings/reviews counts are updated frequently.
Check link for latest rating. ( 8,229 ratings, 1,010 reviews)
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still
learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Summary
Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$2400
$2600
Elsewhere:
Unit price
/
Unavailable
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER
Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks
Found a better price? Request a price match
Love, Nina
$2400
$2600
Elsewhere:
Unit price
/
Unavailable
Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?
Love, Nina
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.
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.
Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and
still learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Description
'How deliciously fresh and funny she is - a real discovery' Deborah Moggach
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 cat nobody likes, 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, Nina is a wonderful celebration of bad food, good company and the relative merits of Thomas Hardy and Enid Blyton.
Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe is widely praised for its humour, warmth, and sharp observational wit. Critics find it delightfully funny, life-affirming, and filled with rich character sketches through the lens of Stibbe's letters home. The book is often compared to the works of Adrian Mole and offers a charming snapshot of 1980s London domestic life, with many reviewers lauding Stibbe's talent for capturing dialogue and day-to-day scenarios.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241965092
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 February 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 245g
Pages: 352
About the Author
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.
Also by Nina Stibbe
View all-
One Day I Shall Astonish the World
Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
More from Biography & Memoir
View all-
New Release
-
A Different Kind of Power
Hardback$4799Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
New Release
-
-
-
-
The Bookseller at the End of the World
Hardback$3299Elsewhere:$3899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Leading Under Pressure
Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
-
-
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You
Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Together We Roared
Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Why buy from us?
Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!
Service & Delivery
Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.
Auckland Bookstore
We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.
Our Gifting Service
Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.
