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This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old who finds herself working in an old people´s home in the 1970s. She´d only gone for the job because it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend and she doesn´t realise there is a right and a wrong way to get someone out of a bath. This is a story of being very young and very old, and the laughter and the tears, in between.

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This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people´s home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it´s not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she´d only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend or a punk. Lizzie has some knowledge of old people (they´re not suited to granary bread, and you mustn´t compare them to toddlers) but she doesn´t know there´s a right way to get someone out of the bath, or what to do when someone dies.

When a rival old people´s home with better parking and daily chairobics threatens to take all their patients, Paradise Lodge´s cast of staff and helpers, from the assertively shy Nurse who only communicates through little grunts to the son of the Chinese takeaway manager who´s renowned for his erotic handholding techniques, have to come together to save the home before it´s too late.

From the bestselling author of Love, Nina comes a story of being very young, and very old, and the laughter, and the tears, in between.

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LOVE it! Instant classic - funny, wise, touching, entirely delightful Marian Keyes

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Stibbe, Nina
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. Love, Nina won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards and in 2016 was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC series starring Faye Marsay and Helena Bonham-Carter. She lives in Cornwall.

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