Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

Ten years after the publication of the prize-winning Love, Nina comes the author’s diary of her return to London in her sixty-first year.Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. It’s a break from married life back in Cornwall, or even perhaps a fresh start altogether. Nina is not quite sure yet.Debby does not have many demands – only to water the garden, watch for toads, and defrost the odd pie – so Nina is free to explore the city she once called home. Between scrutinising her son’s online dating developments, navigating the politics of the local pool, and taking detergent advice at the laundrette, this diary of a sixty-year-old runaway reunites us with the inimitable voice of Love, Nina, as the writer becomes, as she puts it, 'a proper adult' at last.Praise for Love, Nina'No book this year had made me laugh more' - Guardian, Books of the Year'Nina already feels like my best friend' - Marian Keyes'Hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness . . . the most charming book I've ever read' - Maria Semple

Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique sentences than anyone else, Stibbe has an extraordinary gift, Nina Stibbe makes being funny look easy, but that's just because she's very, very good at it, Stibbe is one of the all-time greats, One of the great comic writers of our time

Nina Stibbe is the author of seven books. Love, Nina won the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2014 National Book Awards, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. The book was adapted by Nick Hornby for BBC Television. She is the author of four novels, all of which have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Her third novel, Reasons to be Cheerful, is the only novel to date to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award for comic fiction.