Books by Nina Stibbe
Reasons to be Cheerful
by Nina Stibbe
🏆 Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
🏆 Winner of the 2020 Comedy Women in Print Prize
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.
Interviews where books by Nina Stibbe were recommended
The Funniest Books of the 21st Century
This year, to mark its 25th anniversary, the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction declared Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian to be their ‘winner of winners’, that is: the funniest book of the last twenty-five years. We asked comedian Tatty Macleod, one of the judges, about the process of sifting through their longlist of the previous winners.
