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An Almost Perfect Christmas: A hilarious Christmas read from bestselling author of Love, Nina

An Almost Perfect Christmas: A hilarious Christmas read from bestselling author of Love, Nina

by NinaStibbe (Author)

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    Hardcover 2017

    $3.77
Synopsis

'This book is the seasonal garnish we all need' Observer 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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 176
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Viking
Published: 02 Nov 2017
ISBN 10: 0241309824
ISBN 13: 9780241309827
Book Overview: An ode to the joy and insanity of Christmas from the heir to Sue Townsend.

Media Reviews
This book is the seasonal garnish we all need. There is no subject upon which Stibbe could not entertain . . . It ends with Zest: a vital ingredient in many Christmas dishes . But the essential zest, I'd say, is Nina Stibbe herself * Observer *
I'll return to An Almost Perfect Christmas year after year...it's Stibbe who truly captures that typically English attitude of adhering to traditions while grumbling about them ceaselessly * Stylist *
The author of Love, Nina delves hilariously into the festive season * Elle *
This will have any recipient chuckling out loud * Homes & Antiques *
All festive life is in these short stories * Red *
These festive essays are the perfect anecdote for anyone who doesn't do Christmas * Fabulous Magazine, The Sun *
Anyone who's suffered perennially dry turkey, the dreaded round-robin and having all your beloved's family in the same room at the same time, will laugh and laugh * Saga *
Prepare to ignite your Yuletide spirit * Glamour *
Witty, intimate, beguiling... Ideal for a Christmas stocking * Irish Times *
Charming -- India Knight
Nina Stibbe is coming on as the new Sue Townsend or Alan Bennett * Evening Standard *
Author Bio
Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of Love, Nina, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards, and the massively acclaimed novel Man at the Helm, which was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. her most recent novel is Paradise Lodge. She lives in Cornwall with her partner and two children.