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RSS FeedsReading group: Nina Stibbe`s Reasons to be Cheerful is our book for April
(The Guardian Books Blog)

 
 

8 april 2020 09:28:08

 
Reading group: Nina Stibbe`s Reasons to be Cheerful is our book for April
(The Guardian Books Blog)
 


The Love, Nina author´s novel about a 18-year-old who moves above a dental surgery to escape her mother is set to raise laughs this month - do join inNina Stibbe´s Reasons to be Cheerful has come out of the hat and will be the subject of this month´s reading group. We asked for a book to cheer us up and there´s no question that this one is making a promise in its title.Last year, it won the Bollinger Wodehouse prize for comic fiction, as well as warm and appreciative reviews in the UK and the US. Sam Leith called it `pitch perfect` in the Guardian, while Susan Coll wrote in the New York Times that it was `so dense with amusing detail that I thought about holding the book upside down to see if any extra funny bits might spill from the creases between the page`. Continue reading...


 
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