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Reasons to be Cheerful: Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Reasons to be Cheerful: Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

by NinaStibbe (Author)

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    Hardcover 2019

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Synopsis

IN 2019 WE ALL NEED . . . REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
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It is 1980. Lizzie Vogel is eighteen and about to learn some vital lessons about adult life:

1. How to deal with your boss
(when he is a racist, sexist, slightly incompetent dentist who is obsessed with joining the freemasons)

2. How to live alone
(when your first flat comes with the job but the boss insists on using your toilet)

3. How to seduce your first boyfriend
(when he might prefer birdwatching and you must wear socks and sandals due to a case of recurring athlete's foot)

Will Lizzie become an independent woman or will she be forced to return home to her alcoholic,
novel-writing mother (which might actually be the better option after all)?

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Viking
Published: 28 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 0241240522
ISBN 13: 9780241240526
Book Overview: An achingly funny tale of a teenager falling in love with the wrong person, in 1970s Leicestershire.

Media Reviews
Stibbe is a terrific writer with a gift for sharp dialogue * Evening Standard *
I'm not surprised to see that Stibbe's writing has been compared to Jane Austen's -- Emma Healey
She captures exactly what it's like to be a teenager, with all its contradictions, confusions, anxieties and ambitions. * The i *
The funniest new writer to arrive in years -- Andrew O'Hagan
A touch of Holden Caulfield in 1970s Leicestershire * Spectator on 'Paradise Lodge' *
Stibbe is herself becoming a worthy successor to Pym * Financial Times *
The true heir to Sue Townsend -- Caitlin Moran
Author Bio
Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of two works of non-fiction - Love, Nina and An Almost Perfect Christmas - and two novels: Man at the Helm and Paradise Lodge, both of which were shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards and in 2016 was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC series starring Faye Marsay and Helena Bonham-Carter. She lives in Cornwall.