Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home

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When 20-year-old Nina Stibbe arrived as a nanny in London's Gloucester Crescent, she didn't yet know that she had landed in the center of major UK literary scene. Over the next five years, she faithfully tended to her two strapping male charges and frequently wrote home to her rural Leicester family. Those letters were eagerly read and then sat in a box until someone discovered them as a unique record of one talented young woman's take on a whole new world. A book that charmed our Discover selection committee readers.

The New York Times - Dwight Garner

The New York Times Book Review - Emma Gilbey Keller

Nick Hornby - The Believer

J. Courtney Sullivan

The Bookseller

Andrew O'Hagan

Deborah Moggach

Andrew O'Hagan

Deborah Moggach

From the Publisher

"[Love, Nina is] observant, funny, terse, at times a bit rude. It affords a glimpse into a rarefied London social and literary milieu...These letters are winning from the start...we simply like being in Ms. Stibbe's company."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"I have never laughed so hard reading a book. Nina Stibbe's recollections of life as a London nanny are both hilarious and heartwarming."—J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Maine and The Engagements

"If you are looking for a memoir with a literary and arty cast of characters, Nina Stibbe's hilarious LOVE, NINA is hard to beat....The joy of LOVE, NINA is that it is what you could call an unfiltered memoir, comprised of actual letters Stibbe wrote to her sister Victoria over five years, describing her London life and peppered with Stibbe's pitch perfect ear for dialogue and character....Its true strength is Stibbe's comedic touch about universal themes of family life and of someone going out in the wider world for the first time."—The Bookseller

"Nina Stibbe is the funniest new writer to arrive in years. LOVE, NINA is a memoir so warm, so witty and so wise, it's like finding the friend you always deserved."—Andrew O'Hagan, author of BE NEAR ME and MISSING

"What a funny, artist-filled life she lived, and how well she watched and participated. This is an offbeat paean to families, real and cobbled-together, to sisters and siblings, and to communicating with love. It's also a rare and delectable epistolary slice of life."—Booklist (starred review)

"I loved this book. What a beady eye she has for domestic life, and how deliciously fresh and funny she is - a real discovery."—Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel