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From Nina Stibbe, the acclaimed author of Love, Nina and Man at the Helm comes "another deft helping of absurd social comedy and unconventional wisdom" (Kirkus).
After succeeding in her quest to help her unconventional mother find a new "man at the helm," 15-year old Lizzie Vogel gets more than she bargained for when she takes a job as a junior nurse at Paradise Lodge, a ramshackle refuge for the elderly that has seen better days. What begins as a way to get spending money (for important items like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly turns into the education of a lifetime as Lizzie encounters a colorful cast of eccentric characters. But when Paradise Lodge faces a crisis, Lizzie must find a way to save her job before she loses the only place she's ever felt like she belongs. A hilarious, heartfelt coming-of-age tale, PARADISE LODGE proves that it's never too early--or too late--to grow up.
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Review:
"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
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"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
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"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
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"Stibbe has a gift for summoning the high-octane low-attention-span pimplefest that is adolescence."
Molly Young, New York Times Book Review
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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"
From the Back Cover:
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"
'An instant classic - funny, wise, touching, entirely delightful' Marian Keyes
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel should be in school. Instead she's working at the Paradise Lodge old people's home for 35p an hour. (To pay for coffee and shampoo, luxuries her bankrupt mother can't afford.) Unfortunately, Paradise Lodge is on the verge of its own insolvency and despite the restricted diet (apple-and-raisin pie, three times a day) and a rival old people's home stealing its residents, Lizzie must somehow keep her charges alive, her mother sane (or at least off the drugs) and outwit the school head who's noted her absence. It's a lot of work for a regular supply of Linco Beer Shampoo . . .
'Keenly observed and sparkling with Stibbe's trademark deadpan humour. A quintessentially English social comedy: a novel that revels in the comic - and occasionally tragic - minutiae of everyday life' Observer
'Unforgettable: touching, funny, grotesque and brimful of real and surprising characters' Irish Times
'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
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- PublisherBack Bay Books
- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 031630932X
- ISBN 13 9780316309325
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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