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(0)Nina Stibbe
Author
Series
Man at the helm novels (Nina Stibbe) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job as an "auxiliary nurse" at Paradise Lodge, a home for the elderly, and learns that her job entails helping the patients (frequently) to the bathroom. What begins as a way to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly becomes the education of a lifetime as Lizzy wades through the day-to-day humdrum and drama of this ramshackle refuge for...
Author
Series
Man at the helm novels (Nina Stibbe) volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
"Born into a posh family, ten-year old Lizzie Vogel has lived a charmed life thus far, with a big sister who knows everything, a cute baby brother, and a full-time housekeeper who bakes jam tarts. But when, in 1970, Lizzie's father abandons her mother and packs his ex-family off to the tiny village of Flatstone, life for the Vogels veers catastrophically off-course. The new neighbors disapprove of divorcees and fatherless children, and Lizzie's theatrical...
Author
Series
Man at the helm novels (Nina Stibbe) volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
Taking a job as an assistant to an eccentric dental surgeon, eighteen-year-old Lizzie pursues a fantasy relationship with her crush before realizing that he is not quite as imagined.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
When her best friend of thirty years goes out of reach, seeking professional glory, while her husband seeks immortality, Susan begins to wonder if she has made the right choices about life, love, work and, most importantly, friendship.