An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe

An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe

Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina and Reasons to Be Cheerful, delves hilariously into the festive season with the perfect stocking filler!

'This book is the seasonal garnish we all need' Observer

"My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with a walk into the village though, she might think 'oh, f*** it' and decide to get a frozen one from Bejams on the 23rd and leave it to defrost in the downstairs toilet for not quite 48 hours."

From perennially dry turkeys to Christmas pudding fires, from the round robin code of conduct to the risks and rewards of re-gifting, An Almost Perfect Christmas is an ode to the joy and insanity of the most wonderful time of the year.

'Witty, intimate, beguiling . . . Ideal for a Christmas stocking' Irish Times

'It's Stibbe who truly captures that typically English attitude of adhering to traditions while grumbling about them ceaselessly' Stylist

'Prepare to ignite your Yuletide spirit' Glamour

This book is the seasonal garnish we all needThere is no subject upon which Stibbe could not entertain . . . It ends with "Zest: a vital ingredient in many Christmas dishes". But the essential zest, I'd say, is Nina Stibbe herself * Observer *
I'll return to An Almost Perfect Christmas year after year...it's Stibbe who truly captures that typically English attitude of adhering to traditions while grumbling about them ceaselessly * Stylist *
The author of Love, Nina delves hilariously into the festive season * Elle *
This will have any recipient chuckling out loud * Homes & Antiques *
All festive life is in these short stories * Red *
These festive essays are the perfect anecdote for anyone who doesn't "do" Christmas * Fabulous Magazine, The Sun *
Anyone who's suffered perennially dry turkey, the dreaded round-robin and having all your beloved's family in the same room at the same time, will laugh and laugh * Saga *
Prepare to ignite your Yuletide spirit * Glamour *
Witty, intimate, beguiling... Ideal for a Christmas stocking * Irish Times *
Charming -- India Knight
Nina Stibbe is coming on as the new Sue Townsend or Alan Bennett * Evening Standard *

Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of two works of non-fiction - Love, Nina and An Almost Perfect Christmas - and three previous novels: Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge, and Reasons to be Cheerful, which is the only novel to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC TV series. Nina Stibbe lives in Cornwall.

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ISBN 13	9780241309827
ISBN 10	0241309824
Title	An Almost Perfect Christmas
Author	Nina Stibbe
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2017-11-02
Number of pages	176
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.