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Nina Stibbe
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.
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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…
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Originally published in Great Britain by Viking, March 2019 –Title page verso.
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It is the late 1970s and the place is in chaos - there’s a much swisher old people’s home nearer the supermarket with better parking which is taking all the…
In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea…
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Originally published: London: Penguin Group, 2013.
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From the beloved author of Love, Nina, a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime. Susan and Norma have…
Not long after her parents’ separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother…
From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime
Originally published in Great Britain by Viking, November 2017 –Title page verso.
‘A true gift of a novel…
Jane Gardam
This funny and wise masterpiece is being reissued as part of Abacus’s 50th anniversary celebrations, with a new introduction from Nina Stibbe
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Seamas O'Reilly
Froman Observer columnist and Twitter sensation, the story of a boy growing up in a family bonded by loss, love and mockery, set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland in…
Monica Dickens
A charming, funny and fascinating account of a young trainee nurse during the Second World War.
A winning comic novel from a beloved author - the triumphs and tribulations of a young female reporter in the early 1950s.
