Nina Stibbe

Nina Stibbe (born 1962 in Willoughby Waterleys , Harborough ) is a British author.

Life

Stibbe's father is an industrialist from Leicester , her mother comes from a family of lawyers there, the marriage with four children was divorced and the mother first moved to the country in the early 1970s. Stibbe attended school in Kibworth and high school "Robert Smyth Academy" in Market Harborough . Stibbe worked as an au pair in France in 1981 and from 1982 to 1987 in London as the nanny of Stephen Frears ' sons , who lived with their divorced mother Mary-Kay Wilmers , editor of the London Review of Books . At the kitchen table in the house on Gloucester Crescent in Camden Town , the neighbors Alan Bennett , Jonathan Miller or Karel Reisz sometimes met . Claire Tomalin , Michael Frayn and Deborah Moggach also lived in the neighborhood . Stibbe studied during her time with Wilmers at the Thames Polytechnic . She later worked in publishing at Routledge, among others .

Her first publication in 2013 is based on letters she wrote to her sister in Leicester while at Wilmers. Some of the letters had already been published in 2008 by Andrew O'Hagan in Bad Character , a book for Wilmers' 70th birthday, without initially finding any particular resonance. The book was very well received by critics and reading audiences in 2013. Nick Hornby turned it into five episodes for a TV series on BBC One in 2016 .

In her first novel, which she began to write in the 1980s and which was published in 2014, two young girls are looking for a new man for their divorced mother and a head of the family.

Stibbe lives in Truro with Mark Nunney, whom she met in the Wilmers household, and two children .

Works

Love, Nina: despatches from family life . London: Viking, 2013
Man at the helmet . London: Viking, 2014
- A man for the house: two sisters looking for a man for their mother: Roman . Translation Marcus Ingendaay . Munich: Manhattan, 2016
Paradise Lodge: a novel . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016.