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Not long after her parents' separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother and their newly divorced mother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother is all alone, only thirty-one years of age, with three young children and a Labrador. It is no wonder, when you put it like that, that she becomes a menace and a drunk. And a playwright. Worried about the bad playwriting - though more about becoming wards of court and being sent to the infamous Crescent Home for Children - Lizzie and her sister decide to contact, by letter, suitable men in the area. In order to stave off the local social worker they urgently need to find a new man at the helm. By the author of the much-loved Love, Nina comes a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about a family's fall from grace and the horrors of being an attractive divorcée in an English village in the 1970s.
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Man at the Helm, Nina Stibbe
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- Man at the Helm
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nina Stibbe
- Publisher
- Viking
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0241003164
- ISBN13
- 9780241003169
- Series
- Lizzie Vogel
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Family, Women, Relationships, British Literature, Children, England, Comedies, English Literature, Cities, Family relationships, Mothers, Search, Siblings, Father, New Beginning, Divorce, Tragedy, Countryside, Dark Humor
- First published
- 2014
- Original title
- Man at the Helm
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- Not long after her parents' separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother and their newly divorced mother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother is all alone, only thirty-one years of age, with three young children and a Labrador. It is no wonder, when you put it like that, that she becomes a menace and a drunk. And a playwright. Worried about the bad playwriting - though more about becoming wards of court and being sent to the infamous Crescent Home for Children - Lizzie and her sister decide to contact, by letter, suitable men in the area. In order to stave off the local social worker they urgently need to find a new man at the helm. By the author of the much-loved Love, Nina comes a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about a family's fall from grace and the horrors of being an attractive divorcée in an English village in the 1970s.