One Day I Shall Astonish the World
From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime
'A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer' Meg Mason
'Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique sentences than anyone else' Caitlin Moran
'Stibbe has an extraordinary gift' Marian Keyes
'Nina Stibbe makes being funny look easy, but that's just because she's very, very good at it' Clare Chambers
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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…
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May 30, 2023Nina 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.
One Day I Shall Astonish the World
Nina Stibbe
Reasons to be Cheerful
Nina Stibbe