I’m journalist and creator of The Shift, Sam Baker - and I’m delighted to be here for the final bookclub of the year with the one and only Nina Stibbe.
Nina probably doesn’t need much introduction but I’m going to give her one anyway.
She is the author of seven books. Her first, Love, Nina won the Non-fiction book of the year at the 2014 National Book Awards and was adapted by Nick Hornby (or Hornby as we now know him!) for the BBC starring Helena Bonham Carter. Nina has written four novels all of which have been shortlisted for the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction and her third, Reasons to be Cheerful, won both that prize and the Comedy Women in Print award for comic fiction.
She’s been described as “the heir to Adrian Mole creator Sue Townsend” by Caitlin Moran and as a “A unique comic voice” by David "one day" Nicholls, and “The funniest person who owns a computer” by Ann Patchett. No pressure Nina but you better be funny now!
But we’re here to talk about her 7th book - Went to London, Took The Dog - in which she returns to the land of Love, Nina 40 years after she first landed there, this time as a 60-year old-menopausal runaway on a one-year sabbatical from her marriage. It’s funny, sharp, raw, vulnerable and I laughed and cried. It’s also that rare thing, a book about a middle aged woman as she navigates moving forward in the third act of her life.
And if you need even more convincing, the Telegraph described it as Utter Tosh! SOLD!
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