Paradise Lodge
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  • Published: 2 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405925181
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99

Paradise Lodge

Hilarity and pure escapism from a true British wit

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2 Jun 2016
Audiobook
2 Jun 2016
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15 Apr 2017
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A riotous celebration of being very young and very old - and the laughter and the tears in between

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe, read by Helen Baxendale.

This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend or a punk, and she doesn't realise there is a right and a wrong way to get someone out of a bath.

Through a cast of wonderful characters, from the assertively shy Nurse who only communicates via little grunts to the very attractive son of the Chinese take away manager, Paradise Lodge is the story of being very young, and very old, and the laughter, and the tears, in between.
  • Published: 2 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405925181
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Nina Stibbe

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 previous novels: Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge, and Reasons to be Cheerful, which is the only novel to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC TV series. Nina Stibbe lives in Cornwall.

Also by Nina Stibbe

One Day I Shall Astonish the World
Reasons to be Cheerful
24 Stories
An Almost Perfect Christmas
Man at the Helm
Love, Nina
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Praise for Paradise Lodge

It's the most piss-funny thing I've read all year

Caitlin Moran on 'Love, Nina'

The funniest new writer to arrive in years

Andrew O’Hagan

Nina already feels like my best friend

Marian Keyes

I am already longing for Nina Stibbe's next book

Express on 'Man at the Helm'

I can't remember a book that made me laugh more

Observer on 'Man at the Helm'

Man at the Helm wouldn't be out of place on the same shelf as Cold Comfort Farm and I Capture the Castle

New York Times on 'Man at the Helm'

Lizzie's voice is convincingly childlike but also confidently witty... Stibbe's feat is to remain unsentimentally barbed while subtly and triumphantly demonstrating the value of the kind of understated love found within the strangest and least obviously functional families

Telegraph on 'Man at the Helm'

Fantastic. Comical, moving and brilliantly evocative of British childhood

Glamour on 'Man at the Helm'