Home |Register |Sign In Home Top Picks: All Books Love, Nina Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe Price: $16.00 (Paperback) MorePublished: November 04, 2014 Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) From the Publisher: "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 In 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young boys.</p><p> In frequent letters home to her sister, Nina described her trials and triumphs: there's a cat nobody likes, suppertime visits from a famous local playwright, a mysteriously unpaidmilk bill, and repeated misadventures parking the family car.</p><p> Dinner tablediscussions cover the gamut, from the greats of English literature, toswearing in German, to sexually transmitted diseases.</p><p> There's no end to what Nina can learn from these boys (rude words) and their broad-minded mother (the who's who of literary London).</p><p> A charming, hilarious, sweetly… Rate This Book Add To Wishlist |Rate/Review Add To Bookshelf Get This Book Personalize / Add More ChoicesGo to your preferred retailer, click to choose a format and you' ll be taken directly to their site where you can get this book.</p><p> What We Say Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe is a charming memoir presented as a series of letters between Stibbe and her sister.</p><p> Stibbe worked as a nanny for the female head of the London Review of Books in the 1980s, allowing her to weigh in on everyonefrom her boss’s ex-husband, film director Stephen Frears, to various and sundry figures, from a decidedly humorous and domestic perspective.</p><p> It’s a delight, mostly centered on family.</p><p> But the real catnip for theater lovers is next-door neighbor Alan Bennett, who Stibbe first thinks might be an actor on the telly but finally susses out is a playwright.</p><p> Bennett encourages her to go back to school when not obliquely criticizing her cooking (he’s often over for dinner), and it’s a most Share This Book About The Author Nina Stibbe Nina Stibbe, after leaving her work as ananny and attending university, worked inpublishing.</p><p> She now lives in Cornwall with her husband and their two children.</p><p> Release Info List Price: $16.00 (Paperback) Published: November 04, 2014 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pages: 352 ISBN 10: 0316243388 ISBN 13: 9780316243384unexpected glimpse at this legendary figure — very amusing, very sweet, and very fun. -- Michael Giltz What Others Say "I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever.</p><p> It's real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving...and I can't remember the last time I laughed out loud so frequently while reading."â Nick Hornby , The Believer - "[Love, Nina is] observant, funny, terse, at times a bit rude.</p><p> It affords a glimpse into a rarefied London social and literary milieu...These letters are winning from the start...we simply like being in Ms.</p><p> Stibbe's company."â Dwight Garner, The New York Times - "I have never laughed so hard reading a book.</p><p> Nina Stibbe's recollections of life as a London nanny are both hilarious and heartwarming."â J.</p><p> Courtney Sullivan, author of Maine and The Engagements - "I must MOST EARNESTLY recommend Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe.</p><p> It's the most piss-funny thing I've read all year.</p><p> I can't remember a book since Adrian Mole that so brilliantly, drily nailed day-to-day life in BRILLIANT, faux-naive prose."â Caitlin Moran, author of How to Build a Girl - "Nina Stibbe is the funniest new writer… More What You Say Filter by No Reviews Found ..... about us |faq|advertise |privacy policy |contact us ©2015, BookBuddha LLc.</p><p> All Rights Reserved.
