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“I'd only ever had one boyfriend and it hadn't gone well. I'd realized pretty quickly that this boy and I were incompatible (because of everything he said and did), so I told him it was over. It took months for him to get the message. It was so excruciating, I thought I was going to have to pay someone to kill him.“

This book is so funny!! It‘s about a teen working at an old folks home and going to school and it is just sooo funny about love and death and family and stuff. Very dry British humor. Definitely a pick, highly recommend!

Read this one about a teenager working at a nursing home in England in the 1970‘s for this month‘s book club pick.

A fun easy book written in a memoir style about one girl's experience of working in an retirement home whilst dealing with a chaotic family in the late 70s

It seemed unkind but understandable - they had all loved her very much before she left and the feeling of abandonment made that love turn sour. It always does.
A feeling I can relate to well at the moment...

Surprisingly, I liked this book a lot more that I expected I would. The protagonist wasn't annoying at the start, but still finished as a better person.

I'm taking part in the British Books Challenge this year - join me? http://bookriot.com/2017/01/09/the-british-books-challenge-2017-im-in-are-you/

Tonight's book is Nina Stibbe's Paradise Lodge which is hopefully going to be my book set within 100 miles of me for @bookriot #readharder 2017. Technically London is within 100 miles of me, but as I read a lot of books set in London, that seems like cheating. This is set about 20 miles from me which feels more in the spirit of things.

#photoadaynov16 #childprotagonists This book is charming and funny which is perhaps surprising since it's about a teenager working in a nursing home.

I was lucky enough to meet Nina Stibbe after her talk on her new book at the Cheltenham Literature Festival last week. She was absolutely brilliant, can't wait wait to read her new book, and highly recommend her first two.

Vanity Fair called it "a comic romp about aging and belonging." Add it to your list!