One Day I Shall Astonish the World [Hardcover]

From the beloved author of Love, Nina, a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime.
 
Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right choices about life, love, work, and, most importantly, friendship.
 
Nina Stibbe's new novel is the story of the wonderful and sometimes surprising path of friendship: from its conspiratorial beginnings, along its irritating wrong turns, to its final gratifying destination.

Nina Stibbeis the author of two works of nonfiction,Love, NinaandAn Almost Perfect Christmas, and three previous novels,Man at the Helm, ParadiseLodge, andReasons to Be Cheerful, which won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse

Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Prize.Love, Ninawas adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC TV series. Stibbe lives in Cornwall.

“Very funny…Nina Stibbe does gentle wisdom well.”NELL ZINK, author of Doxology and The Wallcreeper"As a comic novelist, Stibbe is so truly incomparable, I can only describe this perfect novel as Stibbe meets Stibbe, with a touch of Stibbe. (And if you love Nina Stibbe…you’ll love this.) For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer. A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it."MEG MASON, author of Sorrow and Bliss“A master wielder of dry British humor, Stibbe (Love, Nina) here chronicles 30 years in the lives of frel#$