Sweet whimsical memoir book about Nina Stibbe (the author) who in 1982 moves to London to be a nanny for Mary Kay Wilmers two boys Sam and Will Friers. Alan Bennett is a neighbor and over for dinner almost every night. I had heard of Bennett before reading this book (English actor and playwright) but had not heard of Wilmers (founder and editor of London Book Review). The memoir is a series of Stibbes' letters home to her sister during the two years she was a nanny and then the subsequent two years when she continued to live with the family while attending university. There is not much of a story line, but the letters were sweet, whimsical and funny. Stories of the boys and lots of dinnertime conversations. She includes lines of dialogue from the conversations which are very funny. Lots of English wit and sarcasm.

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