DescriptionNot long after her parents' separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother and their w divorcee mother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother is all alone, only thirty-one years of age, with three young children and a Labrador. It is wonder, when you put it like that, that she becomes a menace and a drunk. And a playwright.Worried about the bad playwriting - though more about becoming wards of court and being sent to the infamous Crescent Home for Children - Lizzie and her sister decide to contact, by letter, suitable men in the area. In order to stave off the local social worker they urgently need to find a new Man at the Helm.By the author of the much loved Love, Nina comes a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed vel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcee in an English village in the 1970s, and a family's fall from grace. Key FeaturesAuthor(s)Nina StibbePublisherPenguin Books LtdDate of Publication28/08/2014LanguageEnglishFormatPaperbackISBN-100241003164ISBN-139780241003169SubjectGeneral & Literary Fiction Publication DataPlace of PublicationLondonCountry of PublicationUnited KingdomFirst Published2014ImprintViking DimensionsWidth152 mmHeight230 mm Editorial DetailsEdition StatementAirside edition DescriptionPrizesShortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2015. Priced to sell . Thank you for viewing and Happy ebaying.