Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway

What does it mean to start again at sixty?

Nina Stibbe is surprised to find herself asking this question as she leaves married life behind in Cornwall and heads back to London after twenty years away for what she calls ‘a year-long sabbatical’.

She takes up lodgings at the house of writer Deborah Moggach, unprepared for how she, and the city, has changed and now wondering whether freedom is all it’s cracked up to be...

As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• ISBN: 9781035025312
• Number of pages: 352
• Weight: 244g
• Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 22 mm