I found this both interesting and humorous. The way this book is written you can imagine the different characters she meets on her way and their idiosyncrasies. Descriptive and written in diary form this is a great read.

Nina moves back to London, staying with a friend of a friend and this book chronicles her time back in the city. There are some laugh out loud moments - mainly overheard conversations and some important issues such as HRT brought up and discussed with honesty and openness which other women going through I am sure will take comfort from. There are a lot of people and characters mentioned throughout the book (there is a guide to these at the start). I still found it quite hard to remember who was who at times. I read this book at a gentle pace. It was nice to pick up and read a few pages before bed. I enjoyed it and found it a nice easygoing, witty read.

Delightful book. Really just a list of ordinary day-to-day trivia but so much more than that in its dry, wry and comic telling. A clear look at life in someone else’s shoes and a lingering feeling that you sort of wish that this was your life.

Nina Stibbe is moving back to London to rent a room. It is forty year since she originally moved to London and twenty year since she last lived there.

Starting a different life aged sixty, with only her Cockapoo dog is going to be different.
It’s not the usual book I tend to read, and have realised these types of book are not for me personally. Reading through the time dated diary extracts felt like I was reading someone else’s personal diary, snooping into their thoughts.
There are some very valid issues covered, and I think this could be a book I could return to, but reading extracts over time, but just not in one go.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Publisher for an advanced e- book copy. Opinions about the book are entirely my own.

A year in the life of Nina Stibbe as she moves from Cornwall back to London. If you’ve enjoyed Nina’s other books, you’ll love this one. Written in diary format, Nina recounts her experiences and thoughts with her usual wry sense of humour. (I’ll have to go back to Bath to stay in the Francis Hotel as I’m intrigued by the size of the kettles.) There is a bittersweet feel to some of the entries and it becomes apparent why as you get through the year. Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was something of a new genre for me (other than Anne Frank having not really read anything so strictly a diary) and it took a while to get into the stride of reading what is actually mostly mundane day to day details. However, about a third of the way in to the book I found myself hooked on those details: the little gems of wit, humour and blistering honestly held in the diary entries, tackling such subjects as the best fish pie, the varying merits of Tena and way too much personal detail about Rachel's bladder!
I am envious of Nina's ability to take a year in London and do nothing much except eat, socialise and diarise!

I enjoyed this to start with, especially as I can identify with the lifestyle, but once I was about a quarter of the way through, didn't feel I needed to read any more of the same.

I love diaries and have written one for over fifty years. Therefore, I was grateful to Netgalley for giving me an advance copy of Nina’s book which is in diary form. I love Nina’s observations on life and I love her honesty and humour. I can relate to so much in her diary such as the swimming and of course London itself so different from Cornwall. As a librarian I have met many writers including Deborah Moggach who has spoken and signed books at the Wimbledon book festival. I loved learning about her flat and her life through Nina’s eyes. Cathy Rentzenbrick is a definite favourite of mine. I have read all her books. Nina mentions her throughout the whole book. Today I received Cathy’s newsletter recommending Nina’s book and she was clearly very happy to be in it. I look forward to more books by Nina.

When I saw that Nina Stibbe had written another book about her life I couldn’t wait to read it. It’s written in the style of a diary as she documents her year in London whilst she processes her divorce(?) and her new singleness.
I have so many favourite bits that the book was almost completely highlighted and I snickered to myself a lot through. Nina feels like a kindred spirit and her humour is something the be cherished. Like good white bread toasted with marmite and real butter.

Her relationship with her adult children is something so special and it was a joy to read about. As were all the other people mentioned who I shall have to google because they sound like good options to add to the TBR

I loved the instagram and news headlines sprinkled through as it made me remember those periods of time, and the musings of buses, the way coats look and not so hot cups of tea made me cackle.
It’s deeply funny but also incredibly moving and covers so much if like that is so real but rarely written about in such a lived way.

I’m going to need to swarm her other books like a biblical locust now that I’ve finished this, and will come back and read it again sometime soon. Although I do hope that there might be a Cornish diary at some point in future.
Thank you Nina for a truly wonderful read. And thank you to Net galley and Pan Macmillan for the ARC.

How wonderful to be able to catch up on the characters we first met in ‘Love, Nina’ and to meet new ones! It was like reading Jo’s Boys after reading Little Women but with swearing and more Charlie Bigham pies.

A diary of that year (last year!) when the Queen died and we had three PMs, it’s a momentous year for Nina too as she leaves Devon and moves back to give London another go after the end of her marriage. But does London still have as much love for older Nina as it did for the younger version?

I loved its high-low contemplations of Harold Pinter, Ian McEwan and the song from Madagascar, its musings on those ads that follow you around on Instagram and all the other irritations and tiny thrills of modern life through Nina’s witty and pin-sharp observations.

With this book that makes you realise ‘it’s not just me who feels like that’, Nina joins the ranks of those other great first-name-only diarists – Adrian, Samuel and Virginia.

A wry take on the author's move to London. This could have been a sad book, as she moved there due to her divorce. Love all the name dropping: Alan Bennett, Nick Hornby etc, but especially bits about the author Deborah Moggagh, whose house she moves to. A real laugh out loud book. Looking forward to the next one

In 2022 Nina Stibbe moved back to London after being away for 20 years. Aged 60 she packs up her cockapoo Peggy and moves in as Deborah Moggach for a sabbatical following her divorce. For those who adored Love Nina, this a real treat. She helpful starts with a list of people who appear in the diary, many of whom the reader will have heard of.

An enjoyable diarised narration of Nina’s year living in London (with plenty of flitting to other places too). A pleasant mix of the interesting, the banal and the absurd, in equal measure. I liked the references to the pubs of my youth and the quizzes therein.

Throughout were the pleasing rhythms of interactions with friends and families, made possible by the change in circumstances. Also the woes and respite from the menopause, bringing an often untold issue out into the light.

I've only read one other book by Nina Stibbe but I really enjoyed it which was why I requested this one for review.

There are many laugh out loud moments in Stibbe's diary as she returns to London after being away for 20 years. Absolutely loved it.

A new Nina Stibbe book is like drinking under in your house in winter tucked under a duvet with a much-missed, old friend. If you didn't guess by the five star review I mean that as a huge compliment. It was such a treat to revisit the author of Love Nina on the other side of literary success - and to find everything I loved about her first book and her fiction totally unchanged. Life-affirming stuff.

I'm afraid this one just didn't do it for me. It didn't hit the mark for me, but I think in this case it is down to the reader rather than the author. The connection needed for a book like this just wasn't there.

I enjoyed this often very funny, down to earth diary style book about the author's year in London after 20 years in Cornwall. However, I couldn't help noticing that she seemed to spend most of her time eating out, travelling around the country, socialising and participating in pub quizzes. Great fun nonetheless.
With grateful thanks to NetGalley, Pan Macmillan and Nina Stibbe for an advance ebook copy in exchange for an honest review.

I requested this because the synopsis was interesting. However, I found it very tedious and I am not quite sure why it has been published. I have read Alan Bennett’s diaries which were quite edgy but this wasn’t.

I have been reading both Nick Hornby and Alan Bennett books for over 25 years so the references to both were refreshing. I always enjoy Alan Bennett books that are written in diary format and hence looked forward to reading this book. I was not disappointed. Although Bennett diary books have a style of their own this was an interesting contrast that entertained and enlightened. Having lived in Leicester for half my life and in the county of Leicestershire all my life the references to various things in Leicester were familiar to me. Thoroughly recommended to those who enjoy diary style books. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to ARC this book.

I really do not know how to review this. It is a dip in and and out read. You laugh out loud at times as you remember news stories. I loved the menopause parts. I really enjoyed Nina ‘s year in London. It is a book to keep. .A very good read.