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One Day I Shall Astonish the World
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The breakout novel from the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime.
Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else).
But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right choices about life, love, work, and, most importantly, friendship.
Nina Stibbe's new novel is the story of the wonderful and sometimes surprising path of friendship — from its conspiratorial beginnings, along its irritating wrong turns, to its final gratifying destination.
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In One Day I Shall Astonish the World, Nina Stibbe delivers a darkly funny and moving exploration of female friendship and ambition. The novel is praised for its perceptive, laugh-out-loud observations and a fresh depth akin to Sue Townsend's work. With its rich characterisations and the deft use of British suburban life as a backdrop, the book is full of humour, sentiment, and the complexities of long-term relationships. Stibbe's unique voice captures the humour and intricacy of ordinary English life, further cementing her reputation as an outstanding comic novelist.
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ISBN: 9780241451175
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 April 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Viking
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 260g
Pages: 384
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.
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