Went to London, Took the Dog

Author Nina Stibbe
Narrator Nina Stibbe
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Run Time 11 hours and 3 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Autobiography: writers, Biography and non-fiction prose, Diaries, letters and journals, Family and health, Humour, Memoirs.

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This brilliant audiobook is wittily and hilariously read by the author, Nina Stibbe.

'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason

'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus

'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls

Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. It’s a break from married life back in Cornwall, or even perhaps a fresh start altogether.

Debby does not have many demands – only to water the garden, watch for toads, and defrost the odd pie – so Nina is free to explore the city she once called home. Between scrutinising her son’s online dating developments, navigating the politics of the local pool, and taking detergent advice at the laundrette, 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

'An utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend' - Marian Keyes

'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

Critics Review

Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise
Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
A unique comic voice, endlessly funny. Nina makes me laugh so much
David Nicholls
No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly. No one does a better job of making the ordinary phenomenal
Katherine Heiny, author of Early Morning Riser
Painfully funny, but also deeply moving. I never wanted it to end
Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss
An absurdist chronicler of a world both baffling and extraordinary . . . [a] lovely, funny-sad book
Guardian
What an utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend. I’m so sad it’s over
Marian Keyes
[The] most reliably entertaining of comic writers . . . pure Victoria Wood . . . Stibbe might be sad and scared and have a bad back, but I’d rather read her sad than almost anyone else happy
The Spectator
So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed — it’s like she has X-ray vision when it comes to human beings. I couldn’t stop reading it. I wish it were twice as long. I loved it
India Knight
I don’t think I’ve enjoyed a diary so much since I read Adrian Mole for the first time
Daisy Buchanan
Funny, warm, enlightening. The reading equivalent of getting the giggles in the back row of a school assembly
Santham Sanghera, author of Empireland
I loved this book. Stibbe’s joyful midlife observations, her nods to the wonders and absurdities of the everyday, are so life-affirming. I started seeing pockets of humour in my own ordinary days – and actually felt bereft when I turned the last page
Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane
Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique sentences than anyone else
Caitlin Moran
One of the most hilarious, insightful, addictive writers working today
Jenny Colgan
Like spending an endless afternoon in the most sparkling company but without any pressure to sparkle back
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Nina Stibbe makes being funny look easy, but that’s just because she’s very, very good at it
Clare Chambers
One of the great comic writers of our time
Irish Times
Stibbe is an unassuming comic genius
Independent
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: Love, Nina might be the most charming book I’ve ever read
Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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