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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What to expect
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
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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
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