Paradise Lodge

The true heir to Sue Townsend -- Caitlin Moran Irreverent, warm and hugely entertaining * Daily Mail * She captures exactly what it's like to be a teenager, with all its contradictions, confusions, anxieties and ambitions. * The i * A touch of Holden Caulfield in 1970s Leicestershire -- Lee Langley * Spectator * LOVE it! Instant classic - funny, wise, touching, entirely delightful -- Marian Keyes I'm not surprised to see that Stibbe's writing has been compared to Jane Austen's, and Paradise Lodge reminds me of a clutch of my favourite books -- Emma Healey * Guardian * The funniest new writer to arrive in years -- Andrew O'Hagan A new Nina Stibbe?! Best day ever -- Emma Healey There is a laugh out loud moment in every chapter. Paradise Lodge brilliantly captures the internal panic of a teenager -- Kathy Burke There is never a dull moment in this lively, sensitive, roaringly funny tale * Daily Express * Stibbe looks at another chapter of her life through the prism of her trademark deadpan, acutely observed humour * Stylist * Stibbe is a terrific writer with a gift for sharp dialogue * Evening Standard * Laugh-out-loud funny and full of spot-on 1970s details * Good Housekeeping * Stibbe is herself becoming a worthy successor to Pym, that peerless chronicler of the melancholy pleasures and small struggles of 20th-century English life on the sort of days when, as Lizzie puts it, there was nothing for lunch except ginger cake and tins of marrowfat peas * Financial Times * Winsomely naive yet confident * Sunday Times * Witty and thoroughly chortle inducing * The Lady * A dollop of nostalgia and very British humour * Glamour * Warm, funny story * Elle *