Reasons to be Cheerful

by Nina Stibbe

Nina Stibbe—author of the charming Love, Nina, diaries written while working as a nanny for London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers—finally won the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2019 after previously being shortlisted in 2015 and 2017. Reasons to be Cheerful, a humorous coming of age story about a young dental assistant in Leicester, was her fourth novel. Expect “sharp observations, period details and cheeky moments of insight and open-hearted affection” says The Guardian.