*Man at the Helm*, the debut novel from Nina Stibbe - the much-loved author of *Love, Nina* - is a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcΓ©e in an English village in the 1970s, and a family's fall from grace . . . *My sister and I and our little br
Man at the Helm
β Scribed by Stibbe, Nina
- Book ID
- 108376665
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 378 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780316286749
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β¦ Synopsis
From the writer of the hugely acclaimed Love, Nina comes a sharply funny debut novel about a gloriously eccentric family.
Soon after her parents' separation, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel moves with her siblings and newly single mother to a tiny village in the English countryside, where the new neighbors are horrified by their unorthodox ways and fatherless household. Lizzie's theatrical mother only invites more gossip by spending her days drinking whiskey, popping pills, and writing plays. The one way to fit in, the children decide, will be to find themselves a new man at the helm.
The first novel from a remarkably gifted writer with a voice all her own, MAN AT THE HELM is a hilarious and occasionally heart-breaking portrait of childhood in an unconventional family.
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** A _New York Times_ Notable Book of 2015 From the writer of the hugely acclaimed Love, Nina comes a sharply funny debut novel about a gloriously eccentric family.** Soon after her parents' separation, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel moves with her siblings and newly single mother to a tiny villa