Episode One: Going 成人快手 for Christmas
Sally Phillips reads a set of short stories and personal reflections on Christmas from the author of Love, Nina. Episode 1: Going home for Christmas as a grown up.
Perennially dry turkeys, Christmas pudding fires, wonky Christmas trees and unreliable Santas - An Almost Perfect Christmas is a set of hilarious (and highly relatable) short stories and personal reflections on the joys and insanity of Christmas from the author of Love, Nina. and read by Sally Phillips.
Today: memories that make us chuckle and feel wistful of Christmas in simpler times.
"The true heir to Sue Townsend" - Caitlin Moran
"Nina Stibbe is a national treasure" - Jon Ronson
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 novels: Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge, and Reasons to be Cheerful, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2019.
Abridged by Sara Davies
Read by Sally Phillips
Produced by Mair Bosworth for 成人快手 Audio in Bristol
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- Mon 21 Dec 2020 12:04成人快手 Radio 4
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