Went to London Took the DogNina StibbeLabel: PicadorDescription: From the beloved writer Nina Stibbe author of Love Nina a warm and funny story of a woman changing her life at sixty.'A unique comic voice endlessly funny' – David Nicholls author of One Day'Painfully funny but also deeply moving' – Meg Mason author of Sorrow and BlissWhat does it mean to start again at sixty?In Went to London Took the Dog Nina Stibbe is surprised to find herself asking this question as she leaves married life behind in Cornwall and heads back to London after twenty years away for what she calls ‘a year-long sabbatical’.She takes up lodgings at the house of writer Deborah Moggach unprepared for how she and the city has changed and now wondering whether freedom is all it’s cracked up to be . . .Follow the diary of a sixty-year-old runaway as she becomes as she puts it ‘a proper adult’ at last.As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour'The true heir to Sue Townsend' – Caitlin Moran'An utter UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever insightful funny FUNNY friend' – Marian Keyes'Vulnerable sharp funny wise' – Bonnie Garmus author of Lessons in Chemistry'No one writes heartbreak more hilariously or hilarity more heartbreakingly' – Katherine Heiny'So sharp and funny blissfully gossipy enviably well-observed . . . I loved it' – India Knight
