Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway by Amazonundefined

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Ten years after the publication of the prize-winning
Love, Nina
comes the author
s diary of her return to London in her sixty-first year. 'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus, author of
Lessons in Chemistry
Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. Its a break from married life back in Cornwall, or even perhaps a fresh start altogether.Debby does not have many demands only to water the garden, watch for toads, and defrost the odd pie so Nina is free to explore the city she once called home. Between scrutinising her sons online dating developments, navigating the politics of the local pool, and taking detergent advice at the laundrette,
Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60 Year-Old Runaway
reunites us with the inimitable voice of
Love, Nina
, as the writer becomes, as she puts it, 'a proper adult' at last.
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason
'An utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend' - Marian Keyes
'No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly' - Katherine Heiny'So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed . . . I loved it' - India Knight
Recenzja
Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise -- Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of
Lessons in Chemistry
A unique comic voice, endlessly funny. Nina makes me laugh so much -- David NichollsNo one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly. No one does a better job of making the ordinary phenomenal -- Katherine Heiny, author of
Early Morning Riser
Painfully funny, but also deeply moving. I never wanted it to end -- Meg Mason, author of
Sorrow and Bliss
An absurdist chronicler of a world both baffling and extraordinary . . . [a] lovely, funny-sad book
Guardian
What an utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend. I'm so sad it's over -- Marian Keyes[The] most reliably entertaining of comic writers . . . pure Victoria Wood . . . Stibbe might be sad and scared and have a bad back, but Id rather read her sad than almost anyone else happy
The Spectator
So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed its like she has X-ray vision when it comes to human beings. I couldnt stop reading it. I wish it were twice as long. I loved it -- India KnightI dont think Ive enjoyed a diary so much since I read Adrian Mole for the first time -- Daisy BuchananFunny, warm, enlightening. The reading equivalent of getting the giggles in the back row of a school assembly -- Santham Sanghera, author of
Empireland
I loved this book. Stibbes joyful midlife observations, her nods to the wonders and absurdities of the everyday, are so life-affirming. I started seeing pockets of humour in my own ordinary days - and actually felt bereft when I turned the last page -- Lucy Atkins, author of
Magpie Lane
Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique sentences than anyone else -- Caitlin MoranOne of the most hilarious, insightful, addictive writers working today -- Jenny ColganLike spending an endless afternoon in the most sparkling company but without any pressure to sparkle back -- Frank Cottrell-BoyceNina Stibbe makes being funny look easy, but that's just because she's very, very good at it -- Clare ChambersOne of the great comic writers of our time
Irish Times
Stibbe is an unassuming comic genius
Independent
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
O autorze
Nina Stibbe is the author of six books.
Love, Nina
won Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2014 National Book Awards, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. The book was adapted by Nick Hornby for BBC Television. She is the author of four novels, all of which have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Her third novel
Reasons to be Cheerful
(2019) is the only novel to date to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award for comic fiction. Her latest novel
, One Day I Shall Astonish The World
, was published in April 2022.

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