Reasons to be Cheerful: économies Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

Funny, charming, odd-in-the-best-way and gorgeously uplifting! A delight from start to finish Marian Keyes

I read all of Reasons To Be Cheerful in one glorious gulp Caitlin Moran

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Teenager Lizzie Vogel has a new job as a dental assistant. This is not as glamorous as it sounds. At least it means mostly getting away from her alcoholic, nymphomaniacal, novel-writing mother. But, if Lizzie thinks being independent means sex with her boyfriend (he prefers bird-watching), strict boundaries (her boss keeps using her loo) or self-respect (surely only actual athletes get fungal foot infections?) shes still got a lot more growing up to do.

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This made me laugh and broke my heart . . . Stibbe is one of the all time greats Daisy Buchanan

Stibbe is one of the great comic writers of our time Irish Times

Pitch perfect vintage comedy Guardian

Lives up to its title Sunday Times

Joyful. Stibbes comedy probes what it means to become an adult Daily Telegraph

The literary love child of Victoria Wood and Alan Bennett...this is économies pure laughing gas Mail on Sunday

Loved it! I so love Lizzie. She is brave and kind and funny and totally original . . . I couldnt have liked it more (as I think Noel Coward said.) Katie Fforde

Another great from Nina Stibbe Kathy Burke

Very few writers can find the delicate balance between heartbreak and hilarity like Nina Stibbe Red Magazine

Comedy gold . . . Reasons To Be Cheerful is just the read you need right now Stylist

Nina Stibbe is an author of such effortless wit that she could turn a shopping list into a bestseller Women and Home

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 novels: Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge, and Reasons to be Cheerful, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2019. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards and in 2016 was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC series starring Faye Marsay and Helena Bonham-Carter. She lives in Cornwall.