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One Day I Shall Astonish the World

An Almost Perfect Christmas

Despatches from Family Life

Love, Nina

Hilarity and pure escapism from a true British wit

Paradise Lodge

The hilarious debut novel from one of Britain’s wittiest writers

Man at the Helm

Reasons to be Cheerful

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My friends, you will UTTERLY ADORE Nina Stibbe's latest novel Reasons To Be Cheerful . . .It is SO SO funny, charming, odd-in-the-best-way and gorgeously uplifting! A delight from start to finish

Stibbe's comedy probes what it means to become an adult, and how we form our financial, sexual, moral and political selves

So dense with amusing detail that I thought about holding the book upside down to see if any extra funny bits might spill from the creases between the page

I read all of Reasons To Be Cheerful last night in one GLORIOUS gulp and it's SUCH a joy - Nina Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique sentences than anyone else in the game. It just CARTWHEELS

If you loved Adrian Mole you'll adore Lizzie Vogel . . . quirky and witty, it also packs an emotional punch

Comedy gold . . . Reasons To Be Cheerful is just the read you need right now, seamlessly weaving together the big themes of life with charm and warmth

Reasons to be Cheerful's tone has been compared to Sue Townsend's but I could haul in Alan Bennett, Barbara Pym and even Jane Austen . . . she writes brilliantly

Full of comedy, but with moving themes of loss and grief, it's an utterly charming coming of age story. A reason to be cheerful indeed

A joyfully meandering, episodic novel that probes what it means to become an adult

Very few writers can find the delicate balance between heartbreak and hilarity like Nina Stibbe

This made me laugh and broke my heart, it's a gorgeous, profound, tender book about growing up and discovering that other humans are charming, obnoxious, enlightening and odd. I think Stibbe is one of the all time greats

Funny, charming, odd-in-the-best-way and gorgeously uplifting! A delight from start to finish

'Nina Stibbe is an author of such effortless wit that she could turn a shopping list into a bestseller'

Loved it! I so love Lizzie. She is brave and kind and funny and totally original . . . I couldn't have liked it more (as I think Noel Coward said.)

A wonderfully funny novel . . . Nina Stibbe is still on sparkling form.

There's a strong Sue Townsend/Alan Bennett flavour to it all . . . funny and sweet

An idiosyncratic, bittersweet coming-of-age tale that certainly justifies its title

Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Teenager Lizzie Vogel has a new job as a dental assistant. This is not as glamorous as it sounds. At least it means mostly getting away from her alcoholic, nymphomaniacal, novel-writing mother. But, if Lizzie thinks being independent means sex with her boyfriend (he prefers bird-watching), strict boundaries (her boss keeps using her loo) or self-respect (surely only actual athletes get fungal foot infections?) she's still got a lot more growing up to do.

Lizzie Vogel's story continues in Reasons to be Cheerful, the brilliantly comic sequel to Nina Stibbe's hilarious books Man at the Helm and Paradise Lodge. 
 
WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 
WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 
 
 'I read all of Reasons To Be Cheerful in one glorious gulp' CAITLIN MORAN 
 
***** 
 
 Teenager Lizzie Vogel has a new job as a dental assistant. This is not as glamorous as it sounds. 
 
At least it means mostly getting away from her alcoholic, nymphomaniacal, novel-writing mother. But, if Lizzie thinks being independent means sex with her boyfriend (he prefers bird-watching), strict boundaries (her boss keeps using her loo) or self-respect (surely only actual athletes get fungal foot infections?) she's still got a lot more growing up to do. 
 
From the bestselling author of Love, Nina comes a brilliantly funny and heartbreaking story of growing up and finding the independence you might not actually want . . . 
 
***** 
 
'Funny, charming, odd-in-the-best-way and gorgeously uplifting! A delight from start to finish' MARIAN KEYES 
 
 'Pitch perfect vintage comedy' GUARDIAN 
 
 'Lives up to its title' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
 'Joyful. Stibbe's comedy probes what it means to become an adult' DAILY TELEGRAPH 
 
 'Loved it! I so love Lizzie. She is brave and kind and funny and totally original' KATIE FFORDE 
 
 'Comedy gold . . . Reasons To Be Cheerful is just the read you need right now' STYLIST 
 
 'Nina Stibbe is an author of such effortless wit that she could turn a shopping list into a bestseller' WOMEN AND HOME 
 
NINA STIBBE'S NEW NOVEL ONE DAY I SHALL ASTONISH THE WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW

Reasons to be Cheerful

Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

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