Bibliograph

Love, Nina, despatches from family life, Nina Stibbe

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Love, Nina, despatches from family life, Nina Stibbe

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Love, Nina

Responsibility statement

Nina Stibbe

Sub title

despatches from family life

Summary

Nina Stibbe's 'Love, Nina: despatches from family life' is the laugh-out-loud story of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family. 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

Target audience

adult

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