Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life by Nina Stibbe is the laugh-out-loud sto
ry of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family. In 1982 Nina Stib
be, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very
particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea how to cook, look af
ter children or who the weirdos were who called round. And the family, busy disc
ussing such arcane subjects as how to swear in German or the merits (or otherwis
e) of turkey mince, were delighted by her lack of skills. Love, Nina is the coll
ection of letters she wrote home gloriously describing her 'domestic' life, the
unpredictable houseguests and the cat everyone loved to hate.
