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Man at the Helm The hilarious debut novel from one of Britain’s wittiest writers

Stibbe Nina
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241967805
Publisert
2015-06-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
223 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Stibbe Nina

Om bidragsyterne

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.

Man at the Helm The hilarious debut novel from one of Britain’s wittiest writers

Stibbe Nina
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk
Stibbe Nina
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk
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<b>I can't remember a book that made me laugh more</b> . . . <i>Man at the Helm</i> is a winner - it even trumps <i>Love, Nina</i>

Observer

A wicked anatomising of a dysfunctional family . . . <b>Buoyantly comic: farcical yet tender, rude with a forgiving sweetness</b>

Spectator

<b>Read it and be charmed.</b> Just the right mixture of childhood innocence and incredulity for the necessary deadpan delivery of Stibbe's particular brand of comedy

Independent

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<b>All hail a book that's <i>funny!</i></b>

- Barbara Trapido,

<b>[A] joyous read, full of wit and charm</b> . . .<b> I am already longing for Nina Stibbe's next book</b>

Express

<b>A beguilingly comic blend of naivety and precociousness</b>

Sunday Times

Within a few pages I was completely caught up in the lives of Lizzie and her family . . . <b>I couldn't have loved it more</b>

- Lisa Jewell,

<b>Fantastic. Comical, moving and brilliantly evocative of British childhood</b>

Glamour

<b>This book is very, very funny.</b> Stibbe has a fine eye for absurdity, and her writing has an unforced charm. [And] there is real darkness here, which makes the humour shimmer all the more

Independent on Sunday

Lizzie's voice is <b>convincingly childlike but also confidently witty</b> . . . What is most moving here - and what makes the book most similar to <i>Love, Nina</i> - is its celebration of the happiness possible within the family.<i> </i><b>Stibbe's feat is to remain unsentimentally barbed while subtly and triumphantly demonstrating the value of the kind of understated love found within the strangest and least obviously functional families</b>

Telegraph

The very start of Lizzie Vogel's story. From the much-loved author of Love, Nina, discover a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about one family's fall from grace.'All hail a book that's funny!' Barbara Trapido***** Meet Lizzie Vogel, 9. Lizzie is concerned about her newly divorced mother; thirty-one years old and trapped in a hostile village in the English countryside with only three young children and a Labrador for company. It isn't that having a husband is good, but in 1970s rural Leicestershire, not having one is bad. The women in the village think Lizzie's mother is after their husbands - and no one will let the children into the Brownies!Worried about their mother's drinking, her (bad) playwriting and social workers sending them off to the infamous Crescent Home for Children, Lizzie and her sister embark on a misguided campaign to find their mother a new husband.LIZZIE'S STORY CONTINUES IN PARADISE LODGE AND REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL!***** '[A] joyous read, full of wit and charm . . . I am already longing for Nina Stibbe's next book' OBSERVER 'Just the right mixture of childhood innocence and incredulity for the necessary deadpan delivery of Stibbe's particular brand of comedy. Read it and be charmed' INDEPENDENT 'A beguilingly comic blend of naivety and precociousness' SUNDAY TIMESNINA STIBBE'S NEW NOVEL ONE DAY I SHALL ASTONISH THE WORLD IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW
Les mer
My sister and I and our little brother were born into a very good situation and apart from the odd new thing life was humdrum and comfortable until an evening in 1970 when my mother listened in to my father's phone call and ended up blowing her nose on a tea towel - a thing she'd only have done in an absolute emergency.
Les mer
When their parents split up nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and brother move with their mother to a slightly hostile village in the English countryside.

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<b>I can't remember a book that made me laugh more</b> . . . <i>Man at the Helm</i> is a winner - it even trumps <i>Love, Nina</i>

Observer

A wicked anatomising of a dysfunctional family . . . <b>Buoyantly comic: farcical yet tender, rude with a forgiving sweetness</b>

Spectator

<b>Read it and be charmed.</b> Just the right mixture of childhood innocence and incredulity for the necessary deadpan delivery of Stibbe's particular brand of comedy

Independent

Se alle

<b>All hail a book that's <i>funny!</i></b>

- Barbara Trapido,

<b>[A] joyous read, full of wit and charm</b> . . .<b> I am already longing for Nina Stibbe's next book</b>

Express

<b>A beguilingly comic blend of naivety and precociousness</b>

Sunday Times

Within a few pages I was completely caught up in the lives of Lizzie and her family . . . <b>I couldn't have loved it more</b>

- Lisa Jewell,

<b>Fantastic. Comical, moving and brilliantly evocative of British childhood</b>

Glamour

<b>This book is very, very funny.</b> Stibbe has a fine eye for absurdity, and her writing has an unforced charm. [And] there is real darkness here, which makes the humour shimmer all the more

Independent on Sunday

Lizzie's voice is <b>convincingly childlike but also confidently witty</b> . . . What is most moving here - and what makes the book most similar to <i>Love, Nina</i> - is its celebration of the happiness possible within the family.<i> </i><b>Stibbe's feat is to remain unsentimentally barbed while subtly and triumphantly demonstrating the value of the kind of understated love found within the strangest and least obviously functional families</b>

Telegraph

The very start of Lizzie Vogel's story. From the much-loved author of Love, Nina, discover a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about one family's fall from grace.'All hail a book that's funny!' Barbara Trapido***** Meet Lizzie Vogel, 9. Lizzie is concerned about her newly divorced mother; thirty-one years old and trapped in a hostile village in the English countryside with only three young children and a Labrador for company. It isn't that having a husband is good, but in 1970s rural Leicestershire, not having one is bad. The women in the village think Lizzie's mother is after their husbands - and no one will let the children into the Brownies!Worried about their mother's drinking, her (bad) playwriting and social workers sending them off to the infamous Crescent Home for Children, Lizzie and her sister embark on a misguided campaign to find their mother a new husband.LIZZIE'S STORY CONTINUES IN PARADISE LODGE AND REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL!***** '[A] joyous read, full of wit and charm . . . I am already longing for Nina Stibbe's next book' OBSERVER 'Just the right mixture of childhood innocence and incredulity for the necessary deadpan delivery of Stibbe's particular brand of comedy. Read it and be charmed' INDEPENDENT 'A beguilingly comic blend of naivety and precociousness' SUNDAY TIMESNINA STIBBE'S NEW NOVEL ONE DAY I SHALL ASTONISH THE WORLD IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW
Les mer
My sister and I and our little brother were born into a very good situation and apart from the odd new thing life was humdrum and comfortable until an evening in 1970 when my mother listened in to my father's phone call and ended up blowing her nose on a tea towel - a thing she'd only have done in an absolute emergency.
Les mer
When their parents split up nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and brother move with their mother to a slightly hostile village in the English countryside.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241967805
Publisert
2015-06-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
223 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Stibbe Nina

Om bidragsyterne

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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