Love Nina Despatches from Family Life (Audible Audio Edition) Nina Stibbe Penguin Books Ltd Books
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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.
At the age of 20, Nina Stibbe moved from Leicestershire to London to become a nanny. Later she studied at Thames Polytechnic and worked in publishing. She now lives in Cornwall with her partner and children.
Love Nina Despatches from Family Life (Audible Audio Edition) Nina Stibbe Penguin Books Ltd Books
I would never have picked this book to read simply because I usually find that these personal accounts of life events to be amusingonly to the writer. This book is the exception. It is truly laugh out loud funny. The letters that Nina Stibbe wrote to her sister during her
nanny days in London with a wealthy, eccentric family are so open and guileless that I just completely fell in love with Nina and the whole entourage.
It is just fun and light and I highly recommend.
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Love Nina Despatches from Family Life (Audible Audio Edition) Nina Stibbe Penguin Books Ltd Books Reviews
Warning! If you aren't British, have your Urban Dictionary nearby! I was Nina's age in the 1980s, and I just loved this flashback. But don't not read it, if you think it is only a flashback. It is a wonderful peek into a family's daily life, and you'll adore the perfectly imperfect Nanny Stibbe. She cheats, lies, and steals...loves, laughs, and cares. If I didn't read this on , I'd be giving it to the first of my girlfriends to turn up on my doorstep.
I enjoyed this book so much, so many of Nina's letters to Vic had me in fits of laughter. I was as ignorant as Nina about background of some the friends and neighbours she met, so it was easy to understand the mistakes she made about their backgrounds. I loved MJ, Sam, Will and AB. What a wonderful time she had with them all. Its a joy to read a book that is funny, entertaining and made me laugh so hard it was actually painful.
An absolutely charming volume of letters from Nina to her sister back home. Although she curtailed her education at the time of the writing, Nina Stibbe was working in the Regent's Park area of London as a nanny but she's a natural writer. She includes wonderful dialogues between her young charges, interesting tidbits about the neighbors who pop in and even some recipes that she serves to them. It doesn't hurt that the neighbors are interesting people such as playwright/actor/novelist Alan Bennet. This book was great fun!
Wonderful book. I have to explain that I have two s. One in my purse and one on my bedside table. The purse spends a lot of time in doctor's offices waiting rooms (helping my elderly Mom) and I like having something great to read that can easily put down.
Marvelous letters, all written to Nina's sister Vic about her life as a Nanny in London in the early 1980's. Witty people, including the children. The letters often left me smiling if not down right laughing (as I escorted Mom and her walker down medical office corridors). Very soon Mom insisted I read the letters to her while we waited. More than once, as Mom's name was called, someone else in the waiting room (or the doctor's staff) would beg "what's the name of that book??".
Getting real mail was fun. Whatever today's electronic connections are, they can't compare with the arrival of a chatty letter from someone you know--a letter neither urgent ("Where R U?") nor briskly demanding ("Pick me up ASAP!"), but leisurely, chock full of casual details, giving you a personal moment with someone who matters to you, and vice versa. Under these circumstances, anything and everything can be interesting--who threw up and why, what caps and hats are in vogue this month, or what the Famous Man Next Door is really like when he's at supper with two small boys, a sassy young nanny, and the Mum, who seems well-loved but very much an after-thought in the group.
Nina Stibbe's book is the kind of thing you take to bed at night to leave a pleasant, relaxing aura over your soon-to-be-sleeping head. It's the perfect book to carry in your bag and read on the train, or while waiting in the hair salon. It will be on a first-name basis with all the pleasures of your vacation at the beach. You will finish it with satisfaction while much heavier, more probing works lie with their bookmarks permanently out of gas on p. 35.
I loved this book and hated it when I got to the end. Ms Stibbe forms very loving pictures of all the diverse characters she interacted with in North London. I would have loved to have had some meals at Ms Wilmer's. And drinks. It gladdens me to know that there are such wonderful, funny and intelligent folk out there.
I had started Mary Kay's book on her family, "The Eitingons", about 2 years ago and kind of stalled out. Based on my new found knowledge of her many personality quirks, I have gone back to that book with real enthusiasm.
I look forward to more work from Nina.
Hilarious. I had so many laugh out loud moments reading this book, and I'm completely enamored with it's characters. When the book ended I felt sad that I wouldn't know Nina, W&S, MK, and AB any longer. I think this is one of the rare books that I will read twice just because I enjoyed it so much. There are a lot of references to British culture in the 1980s, that as an American were unfamiliar to me but the references were not enough to take away from the enjoyment of the book. I could get the general gist. I am still thinking about this quirky family and their hilariously dry nanny weeks after finishing the book. I have already recommended it to my friends. Nina is a real life, funnier Bridget Jones.
I would never have picked this book to read simply because I usually find that these personal accounts of life events to be amusing
only to the writer. This book is the exception. It is truly laugh out loud funny. The letters that Nina Stibbe wrote to her sister during her
nanny days in London with a wealthy, eccentric family are so open and guileless that I just completely fell in love with Nina and the whole entourage.
It is just fun and light and I highly recommend.
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