Новинки Нина Стиббе

На дворе вторая половина 1970-х. Пятнадцатилетняя Лиззи Вогел работает в «Райском уголке» – доме престарелых в Лестершире. Здесь царит хаос, и юной школьнице тут явно не место. Лиззи пошла на эту работу в погоне за переменами, отчаянно стремясь вырваться из замкнутого круга однообразия и скуки. Стать чьей-то девушкой или углубиться в культуру панков было бы слишком утомительно, а вот летняя подработка на новом месте – самое то. Лиззи кое-что знает о стариках – в ее деревне их подавляющее большинство. Возможно, этих знаний достаточно для школьницы пятнадцати лет, но точно не для работника дома престарелых. Как достать старушку из ванны? Что делать, если старичок вот-вот преставится? Однако когда конкурент «Райского уголка» – дом престарелых с ежедневной тайробикой и бинго – грозит переманить всех подопечных себе, Лиззи осознает, что знает больше, чем ей кажется. Ее талант устраивать чужие судьбы в сочетании с жизненным опытом и непредсказуемостью пенсионеров —настоящее секретное оружие для борьбы с конкурентами.
«Райский уголок» – продолжение истинно британской комедии «Человек у руля» Нины Стиббе – сочетает в себе легкий и непринужденный юмор и весьма сложный вопрос связи поколений. Это трогательная история о ценности семьи, дружбы, первой любви и простой человеческой доброты.

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

Летняя легкая и непринужденная комедия, очень теплая и добрая. И хотя роман развлекательный, в нем поднимается непростой вопрос о том, как навести мосты между поколениями, как совсем молодые люди и люди преклонного возраста могут не просто найти общий язык, но и объединиться.

Лиззи пятнадцать лет, она решает провести летние каникулы с пользой и поработать в доме престарелых – занятие ничем не хуже, чем заделаться панком или целыми днями изнывать от скуки, болтая с подружками. Однако скоро выясняется, что общаться со стариками не так-то просто, что публика это вовсе не такая безобидная, как может показаться с первого взгляда, а по части активности они могут фору любой пятнадцатилетке. Для начала придется понять, что у каждого подопечного за спиной целая жизнь с ее драмами, неожиданными поворотами. Затем надо будет найти с ними общий язык. И нет ничего лучше для сплочения, чем внезапно возникшие проблемы.

Конкурирующий дом престарелых надумал разорить «Райский уголок» и умыкнуть к себе всех его постояльцев. Тут-то и выясняется, что жизненный опыт и непредсказуемость пенсионеров, помноженные на желание Лиззи устраивать чужие жизни – это настоящее тайное оружие в борьбе с хищными конкурентами.

Шутки Нины Стиббе, выдаваемые с каменно-невозмутимым лицом, прекрасно оттеняют чудаковатое обаяние ее героев. Отличный коктейль из комедии, доброй истории и легкого британского абсурда.

«Райский уголок» – это трогательная, добрая, полная неподражаемого английского юмора история о ценности семейных связей, дружбе, первой любви и обычной человеческой доброте.

Teenager Lizzie Vogel has a new job as a dental assistant. This is not as glamorous as it sounds. At least it means mostly getting away from her alcoholic, nymphomaniacal, novel-writing mother. But, if Lizzie thinks being independent means sex with her boyfriend (he prefers bird-watching), strict boundaries (her boss keeps using her loo) or self-respect (surely only actual athletes get fungal foot infections?) she's still got a lot more growing up to do. From the bestselling author of Love, Nina comes a brilliantly funny and heartbreaking story of growing up and finding the independence you might not actually want . . .

После развода родителей Лиззи, ее старшая сестра, младший брат, лабрадор Дебби и пара пони вынуждены были перебраться из роскошного лондонского особняка в деревенский дом. Вокруг луга, просторы и красота, вот только соседи мрачно косятся, еду никто не готовит, стиральная машина объявила бунт, а мама без продыху пишет пьесу. Лиззи и ее сестра, обеспокоенные, что рано или поздно их определят в детский дом, а маму оставят наедине с ее пьесой, решают взять заботу о будущем в своем руки. И прежде всего, нужно определиться с "человеком у руля", а попросту с мужчиной в доме. В начале 1970-х мать-одиночку, пусть и из аристократического рода, в…

'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted out by the tall buildings, couldn't shine and the rain was poisoned by the toxic fumes that poured from the sock factories. My skin would be covered in pimples from the hell of it all' So begins a young woman's journey to adulthood. Lizzie Vogel leaves her alcoholic, novel-writing mother and heads for Leicester to work for a racist, barely competent dentist obsessed with joining the freemasons. Soon Lizzie is heading reluctantly, if at top speed, into the murky depths of adult life: where her driving…

"My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with a walk into the village though, she might think 'oh, f*** it' and decide to get a frozen one from Bejams on the 23rd and leave it to defrost in the downstairs toilet for not quite 48 hours."

From perennially dry turkeys to Christmas pudding fires, from the round robin code of conduct to the risks and rewards of re-gifting, An Almost Perfect Christmas is an ode to the joy and insanity of the most wonderful time of the year.

A delightful story of growing up, getting old, and every step in between, from the acclaimed author of Man at the Helm and Love, Nina .

After succeeding in her quest to help her unconventional mother find a new "man at the helm," fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel simply wants to be a normal teenager. Just when it looks as if things have settled down, her mother goes and has another baby. On top of that, Lizzie's best friend has deserted her for the punk craze, which Lizzie finds too exhausting to commit to herself.

But Lizzie soon gets more commitment than she bargained for when she takes a job as a junior nurse at Paradise Lodge, a ramshackle refuge for the elderly that has seen better days. It's no place for a teenager, much less one with as little experience emptying a bedpan as Lizzie. What begins as away to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly turns into the education of a lifetime. Lizzie encounters a colorful cast of eccentric characters -- including a nurse determined to turn one of the patients into a husband (and a retirement plan); an efficient but clueless nun trying to modernize the place; and Lizzie's unlikely first love -- who become her surrogate family.

When Paradise Lodge faces a crisis in the form of a rival nursing home with enough amenities to make even the comatose jealous, Lizzie must find a way to save her job before she loses the only place she's ever felt she belongs. A hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale, Paradise Lodge proves that it's never too early -- or too late -- to grow up.

This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend or a punk. Lizzie has some knowledge of old people (they're not suited to granary bread, and you mustn't compare them to toddlers) but she doesn't know there's a right way to get someone out of the bath, or what to do when someone dies.

When a rival old people's home with better parking and daily chairobics threatens to take all their patients, Paradise Lodge's cast of staff and helpers, from the assertively shy Nurse who only communicates through little grunts to the son of the Chinese takeaway manager who's renowned for his erotic handholding techniques, have to come together to save the home before it's too late.

From the bestselling author of Love, Nina comes a story of being very young, and very old, and the laughter, and the tears, in between.

From the writer of the hugely acclaimed "Love, Nina" comes a sharply funny debut novel about a gloriously eccentric family.

Soon after her parents' separation, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel moves with her siblings and newly single mother to a tiny village in the English countryside, where the new neighbors are horrified by their unorthodox ways and fatherless household. Lizzie's theatrical mother only invites more gossip by spending her days drinking whiskey, popping pills, and writing plays. The one way to fit in, the children decide, will be to find themselves a new man at the helm.

The first novel from a remarkably gifted writer with a voice all her own, MAN AT THE HELM is a hilarious and occasionally heart-breaking portrait of childhood in an unconventional family.

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 divorcee 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.By the author of the much loved Love, Nina comes a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcee in an English village in the 1970s, and a family's fall from grace.

Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life by Nina Stibbe is the laugh-out-loud story of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family. In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea how to cook, look after children or who the weirdos were who called round. And the family, busy discussing such arcane subjects as how to swear in German or the merits (or otherwise) of turkey mince, were delighted by her lack of skills. Love, Nina is the collection of letters she wrote home gloriously describing her 'domestic' life, the…