Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway
Nov 2023 · Pan Macmillan
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From the beloved writer Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina, a warm and funny story of a woman changing her life at sixty.
'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' – David Nicholls, author of One Day
'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' – Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss
What does it mean to start again at sixty?
In Went to London, Took the Dog, Nina Stibbe is surprised to find herself asking this question as she leaves married life behind in Cornwall and heads back to London after twenty years away for what she calls ‘a year-long sabbatical’.
She takes up lodgings at the house of writer Deborah Moggach, unprepared for how she, and the city, has changed and now wondering whether freedom is all it’s cracked up to be . . .
This diary of a sixty-year-old runaway reunites us with the inimitable voice of Love, Nina, as the writer becomes, as she puts it, ‘a proper adult’ at last.
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour
'The true heir to Sue Townsend' – Caitlin Moran
'An utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend' – Marian Keyes
'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' – Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
'No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly' – Katherine Heiny
'So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed . . . I loved it' – India Knight
'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' – David Nicholls, author of One Day
'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' – Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss
What does it mean to start again at sixty?
In Went to London, Took the Dog, Nina Stibbe is surprised to find herself asking this question as she leaves married life behind in Cornwall and heads back to London after twenty years away for what she calls ‘a year-long sabbatical’.
She takes up lodgings at the house of writer Deborah Moggach, unprepared for how she, and the city, has changed and now wondering whether freedom is all it’s cracked up to be . . .
This diary of a sixty-year-old runaway reunites us with the inimitable voice of Love, Nina, as the writer becomes, as she puts it, ‘a proper adult’ at last.
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour
'The true heir to Sue Townsend' – Caitlin Moran
'An utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend' – Marian Keyes
'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' – Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
'No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly' – Katherine Heiny
'So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed . . . I loved it' – India Knight
About the author
Nina Stibbe is the author of several books. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2014 National Book Awards, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. The book was adapted by Nick Hornby for BBC Television. She is the author of four novels, all of which have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Her third novel, Reasons to be Cheerful is the only novel to date to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award for comic fiction. Went to London, Took the Dog is her diary following her return to London.
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