Paradise Lodge - Hardcover

Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester, England, and is the author of the highly acclaimed memoir Love, Nina and the novel Man at the Helm, which was shortlisted for the Lingerer Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. She now lives in Cornwall with her partner and their two children.

"Stibbe's deadpan first-person delivery once again balances quirky charm with beady insight...Another deft helping of absurd social comedy and unconventional wisdom from a writer of singular, decidedly English gifts."
―Kirkus

"Lizzie Vogel is back. Now 15, she's picked up a job at Paradise Lodge, a Leicester home for the aging that has fallen on hard times...The home provides English writer Stibbe's novel with an incredible patchwork of characters and their eccentricities, and Lizzie's observations of her family, coworkers, geriatric charges, and sundry enemies are wise, hilarious, and of an emotional frankness that's all her own...soaked through with charm."
―Booklist

"A comic romp about aging and belonging."
―Anderson Tepper, Vanity Fair


"Sweetness and wit from Nina Stibbe. You won't find a funnier, more original confidante than Lizzie Vogel, a teen who's taken a job in a nursing home, at first just hoping to pay for some nice shampoo but eventually sucked into a full-on farce. Truancy, elder abuse, the death of Elvis Presley--there seems to be nothing the author of Love, Nina can't play for good-natured laughs and a sneaky touch of wisdom."
―Kim Hubbard, People


"The priceless, pragmatic English youngsters who put their mother on the marriage market in last year's delightful Man at the Helm, are back and practicing their skills on a spate of new victims. In Stibbe's newest novel, Lizzie Vogel is now a teenager and hard at work in her first job at a chaotic old-age home. There, she helps a nurse find a husband (who will also operate as a 'retirement plan'). Lizzie, who finds herself feeling more at home than she's ever felt in her life, helps a cast of eccentrics save the home from a rival."
―Billy Heller, The New York Post's Required Reading


"Stibbe has a gift for summoning the high-octane low-attention-span pimplefest that is adolescence."
―Molly Young, New York Times Book Review


PRAISE FOR LOVE, NINA:

"I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever. It's real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving...and I can't remember the last time I laughed out loud so frequently while reading."―Nick Hornby, The Believer

"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude, and aching with sweetness: Love, Nina might be the most charming book I've ever read."―Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

"These letters are winning from the start...we simply like being in Ms. Stibbe's company."―Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"You'll find yourself laughing out loud but also touched by the book's depiction of family as it should be: people bound not just by blood but by shared affinities, humor and unfailing interest in hearing the answer to the question, 'How was your day?'"―Kim Hubbard, People