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Book SynopsisLizzie Vogel''s story continues in Paradise Lodge, the brilliantly comic sequel to Nina Stibbe''s hilarious Man at the Helm.
''LOVE it! Instant classic - funny, wise, touching, entirely delightful'' MARIAN KEYES
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Working in a care home is not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl but 15-year-old Lizzie Vogel went for it. It just seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend or a punk (it is the 1970s after all), plus she has some knowledge of old people. They''re not suited to granary bread, and you mustn''t compare them to toddlers, but she doesn''t know there''s a right way to get someone out of the bath - or what to do when someone dies.
When a rival old people''s home with better parking and daily chairobics threatens to take all their residents, Paradise Lodge''s cast of staff and helpers have to come together to save the home before it''s too late.
From the bestselling
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LOVE it! Instant classic - funny, wise, touching, entirely delightful -- Marian Keyes
A new Nina Stibbe?! Best day ever -- Emma Healey
The funniest new writer to arrive in years -- Andrew O’Hagan
The one problem with reviewing Stibbe is that I just want to quote entire pages: it's all so brilliant. She captures exactly what it's like to be a teenager, with all its contradictions, confusions, anxieties and ambitions. * The i *
There is a laugh out loud moment in every chapter. Paradise Lodge brilliantly captures the internal panic of a teenager -- Kathy Burke
A touch of Holden Caulfield in 1970s Leicestershire... I wouldn't mind fetching up at Paradise Lodge when my time comes: at least we'd all share a laugh, a hug and a terrible cup of tea before the dying of the light. -- Lee Langley * Spectator *
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 *
Irreverent, warm and hugely entertaining * Daily Mail *
The whole book surprises and impresses... I'm not surprised to see that Stibbe's writing has been compared to Jane Austen's -- Emma Healey * Guardian *
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 naïve yet confident * Sunday Times *
Witty and thoroughly chortle inducing * The Lady *
A dollop of nostalgia and very British humour * Glamour *
Warm, funny story * Elle *
