An Almost Perfect Christmas - Hardcover

Stibbe, Nina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241309824 ISBN 13: 9780241309827

Publisher: Viking, 2017

Synopsis

'This book is the seasonal garnish we all need' Observer "My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with a walk into the village though, she might think 'oh, f*** it' and decide to get a frozen one from Bejams on the 23rd and leave it to defrost in the downstairs toilet for not quite 48 hours." From perennially dry turkeys to Christmas pudding fires, from the round robin code of conduct to the risks and rewards of re-gifting, An Almost Perfect Christmas is an ode to the joy and insanity of the most wonderful time of the year.

About this title

About the Author

Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of Love, Nina, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards, and the massively acclaimed novel Man at the Helm, which was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. She lives in Cornwall with her partner and two children.

Review

This book is the seasonal garnish we all need. There is no subject upon which Stibbe could not entertain . . . It ends with "Zest: a vital ingredient in many Christmas dishes". But the essential zest, I'd say, is Nina Stibbe herself * Observer * I'll return to An Almost Perfect Christmas year after year...it's Stibbe who truly captures that typically English attitude of adhering to traditions while grumbling about them ceaselessly * Stylist * The author of Love, Nina delves hilariously into the festive season * Elle * This will have any recipient chuckling out loud * Homes & Antiques * All festive life is in these short stories * Red * These festive essays are the perfect anecdote for anyone who doesn't "do" Christmas * Fabulous Magazine, The Sun * Anyone who's suffered perennially dry turkey, the dreaded round-robin and having all your beloved's family in the same room at the same time, will laugh and laugh * Saga * Prepare to ignite your Yuletide spirit * Glamour * Witty, intimate, beguiling... Ideal for a Christmas stocking * Irish Times * Charming -- India Knight Nina Stibbe is coming on as the new Sue Townsend or Alan Bennett * Evening Standard *

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241309824
• ISBN 13: 9780241309827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176