Man at the Helm: The hilarious debut novel from one of Britain's wittiest writers

By Nina Stibbe

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My sister and I and our little brother were born into a very good situation and apart from the odd new thing life was humdrum and comfortable until an evening in 1970 when my mother listened in to my father’s phone call and ended up blowing her nose on a tea towel – a thing she’d only have done in an absolute emergency.

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