
Went to London, Took the Dog
The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway
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Narrated by:
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Nina Stibbe
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By:
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Nina Stibbe
About this listen
This brilliant audiobook is hilariously read by the author, Nina Stibbe.
From the beloved author of Love, Nina, comes a warm and funny story of a woman changing her life at sixty.
'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons In Chemistry
'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls, author of One Day
What does it mean to start again at sixty?
In Went to London, Took the Dog, Nina Stibbe is surprised to find herself asking this question as she leaves married life behind in Cornwall and heads back to London after twenty years away for what she calls ‘a year-long sabbatical’.
She takes up lodgings at the house of writer Deborah Moggach, unprepared for how she, and the city, has changed and now wondering whether freedom is all it’s cracked up to be . . .
Follow the diary of a sixty-year-old runaway as she becomes, as she puts it, ‘a proper adult’ at last.
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour
'The true heir to Sue Townsend' - Caitlin Moran
'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss
'An utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend' - Marian Keyes
'No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly' - Katherine Heiny
'So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed . . . I loved it' - India Knight
Humour
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Bliss!
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I’ve been listening on repeat!
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A very relaxing listen
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Highly amusing, great sense of humour
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I was also in the dark about who most of the people are. The characters are all listed (and a long, boring list it is, to listen to) at the start, but whereas, in a book, you could quickly flick back to the opening page to check who someone is, it's not easy to do that in an audio book.
Oddly, even being read by its author, the narrator seemed often to leave no gap whatsoever between sentences, so that the meaning was sometimes completely lost. I am sorry to say that it was all completely disappointing.
A Collection of Bits
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Moving and Delightful
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Gentle and Uplifting
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Disappointing
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Nina Stibbe Can Do No Wrong
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