One Day I Shall Astonish the World
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
25 July 2023
Summary
Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right choices about life, love, work, and, most …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241451175 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241451175 |
| Author: | Nina Stibbe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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Nina Stibbe is one of our funniest novelists - it’s time to take her seriously * Daily Telegraph *Stibbe writes some of the best-turned comic sentences in contemporary writing. Like Susan, she makes it look easier than it must be. * Sunday Times *The funniest person who owns a computer – Ann PatchettI love Nina Stibbe and her new novel, One Day I Shall Astonish the World, is such a lovingly observed testament to the complexities and profundities of female friendship – Elizabeth DaySue Townsend’s heir … A moving ode to marriage and friendship and the great joke of agency in a world where everything can turn upside down in a heartbeat * Irish Times *Wonderful … Her best yet – Kathy BurkeTender and comical * New York Times *I loved it so SO much! Funnier than ever but with a new depth and maturity – Marian KeyesNina Stibbe’s latest novel, One Day I Shall Astonish the World buttresses her position as the Kingsley Amis of the twenty-first century… . Stibbe’s genius, like Amis’s, is for noting the cadences of ordinary speech and the idiotic platitudes we all spout. In the anatomy of English conversation, Stibbe (born 1962) takes up where Amis (died 1995) left off. There are echoes of Adrian Mole, Alan Bennett and Victoria Wood - but with no copying or pastiche. Stibbe makes the everyday funny. If a Martian asked me to explain the tragicomedy of normal English life, I would direct him to Stibbe – Harry Mount * Spectator, 2022 Books of the Year *As a comic novelist, Stibbe is so truly incomparable, I can only describe this perfect novel as Stibbe meets Stibbe, with a touch of Stibbe. (And if you love Nina Stibbe…you’ll love this.) For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer. A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it – Meg Mason
About The Author
Nina Stibbe
Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of two works of non-fiction - Love, Nina and An Almost Perfect Christmas - and three previous novels- Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge, and Reasons to be Cheerful, which is the only novel to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC TV series. Nina Stibbe lives in Cornwall.
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