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A NANNY WRITES HOME Nina Stibbe's witty memoir of 1980s literary London is a warm-hearted treat Nina Stibbe’s Love, Nina: Despatches From a Domestic Life is a memoir with a literary and arty cast of characters. Stibbe was nanny to the sons of Mary-Kay Wilmers, the long-time editor of the London Review of Books, in the early 1980s. Alan Bennett  was the next-door neighbour who popped over for supper every night. Wilmers’ friends Claire Tomalin and Michael Frayn had a place around the corner. The opera and theatre director Jonathan Miller was another neighbour – and very generous in lending tools, as they were rarely returned. Deborah Moggach lived across the street. Filmmaker Karel “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” Reisz was a frequent dinner guest.  MORE >

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