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Nina Stibbe
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Gardners Books
Publication date
August 28, 2014
Pages
310
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780241003152
ISBN-10
0241003156
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
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Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$20.60
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
One Mixed-Up Night | The Past | Fates and Furies | Paradise Lodge | Leaving Berlin | Love, Nina | A Window Opens | A Field Guide to Awkward Silences | The Whites
One Mixed-Up Night | The Past | Fates and Furies | Paradise Lodge | Leaving Berlin | Love, Nina | A Window Opens | A Field Guide to Awkward Silences | The Whites
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: * * * NOMINATED FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR * * * Man at the Helm, the debut novel from Nina Stibbe - the much-loved author of Love, Nina - is a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcée in an English village in the 1970s, and a family's fall from grace . . . My sister and I and our little brother were born (in that order) 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. Not long after her parents' separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother and their now divorcée mother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother is all alone, only thirty-one years of age, with three young children and a Labrador. It is no wonder, when you put it like that, that she becomes a menace and a drunk. And a playwright. Worried about the bad playwriting - though more about becoming wards of court and being sent to the infamous Crescent Home for Children - Lizzie and her sister decide to contact, by letter, suitable men in the area. In order to stave off the local social worker they urgently need to find a new Man at the Helm. 'All hail a book that's funny!' Barbara Trapido '[A] joyous read, full of wit and charm . . . I am already longing for Nina Stibbe's next book' Observer 'Nine-year-old Lizzie (our narrator) is the perfect conduit for her creator, just the right mixture of childhood innocence and incredulity for the necessary deadpan delivery of Stibbe's particular brand of comedy. Read it and be charmed' Independent 'A beguilingly comic blend of naivety and precociousness' Sunday Times
Editions
Hardcover
from Little Brown & Co (March 10, 2015)
9780316286671 | details & prices | 310 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $25.00
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from Gardners Books (August 28, 2014)
9780241003152 | details & prices | 310 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $20.60
About: * * * NOMINATED FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR * * * Man at the Helm, the debut novel from Nina Stibbe - the much-loved author of Love, Nina - is a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcée in an English village in the 1970s, and a family's fall from grace .
About: * * * NOMINATED FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR * * * Man at the Helm, the debut novel from Nina Stibbe - the much-loved author of Love, Nina - is a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcée in an English village in the 1970s, and a family's fall from grace .
Paperback
from Back Bay Books (January 5, 2016)
9780316286701 | details & prices | 310 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $14.99
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