Reasons to be Cheerful

Critics Review

• Pitch perfect vintage comedy

  Guardian

• Lives up to its title

  Sunday Times

• 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

  Marian Keyes

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

  Daily Telegraph

• 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

  New York Times

• 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

  Caitlin Moran

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

  Sun

• 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

  Stylist

• 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

  The Times

• The true heir to Sue Townsend

  Caitlin Moran

• 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

  Sunday Mirror

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

  Daily Telegraph

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

  Red Magazine

• 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

  Daisy Buchanan

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

  Marian Keyes

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

  Women and Home

• 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.)

  Katie Fforde

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

  Oldie

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

  Daily Mail

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

  Kirkus