Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home Audiobook

Quotes

• “Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude, and aching with sweetness: Love, Nina might be the most charming book I’ve ever read.”

  — Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette

• “I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever. It’s real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving…and I can’t remember the last time I laughed out loud so frequently while reading.”

  — Nick Hornby, New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Down

• “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, New York Times bestselling author of Maine

• “Charming, but only in the best ways.”

  — New York Times

• “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

• “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

• I went back to listen to the audiobook of Love, Nina again, and again, I honked like a goose through the whole thing.

  — Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House and Bel Canto

• My feel-good recipe is to have a top self-help book on the go together with a novel with a light and jolly perspective on life. On the novel front, anything by P.G. Wodehouse never fails, but this year, Love Nina: A Nanny Writes Home worked just the same magic.

  — Helen Fielding, author of Bridget Jones's Diary

• I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever. It's real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving...and I can't remember the last time I laughed out loud so frequently while reading.

  — Nick Hornby, The Believer

• [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

• I must MOST EARNESTLY recommend Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe. It's the most piss-funny thing I've read all year. I can't remember a book since Adrian Mole that so brilliantly, drily nailed day-to-day life in BRILLIANT, faux-naive prose.

  — Caitlin Moran, author of How to Build a Girl

• 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

• You'll find yourself laughing out loud but also touched by the book's depiction of family as it should be: people bound not just by blood but by shared affinities, humor and unfailing interest in hearing the answer to the question, 'How was your day?'

  — People

• Enchanting . . . a glimpse into the domestic life of a fascinating family.

  — The Wall Street Journal