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Man At the Helm
Nina Stibbe
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Description for Man At the Helm
Paperback. 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 in 1970 when my mother listened in to my father's phone call and ended up blowing her nose on a tea towel - a thing she'd only have done in an absolute emergency. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 228.
The very start of Lizzie Vogel's story. From the much-loved author of Love, Nina, discover a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about one family's fall from grace.
'All hail a book that's funny!' Barbara Trapido
*****
Meet Lizzie Vogel, 9.
Lizzie is concerned about her newly divorced mother; thirty-one years old and trapped in a hostile village in the English countryside with only three young children and a Labrador for company. It isn't that having a husband is good, but in 1970s rural Leicestershire, not having one is bad. The women in the village ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241967805
SKU
9780241967805
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Nina Stibbe
Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of two works of non-fiction - Love, Nina and An Almost Perfect Christmas - and three previous novels: Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge, and Reasons to be Cheerful, which is the only novel to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy ... Read more
Reviews for Man At the Helm
I can't remember a book that made me laugh more . . . Man at the Helm is a winner - it even trumps Love, Nina
Observer
A wicked anatomising of a dysfunctional family . . . Buoyantly comic: farcical yet tender, rude with a forgiving sweetness
Spectator
Read it and be charmed. Just the right ... Read more
Observer
A wicked anatomising of a dysfunctional family . . . Buoyantly comic: farcical yet tender, rude with a forgiving sweetness
Spectator
Read it and be charmed. Just the right ... Read more