Nina Stibbe: ‘I really hate anything horror’

The comic writer on real life inspiring her new novel, the problem with comedy prizes and why she dislikes Moby-DickNina Stibbe shot to literary fame with the publication of Love, Nina, a selection of letters to her sister while working as a nanny for Mary-Kay Wilmers, the editor of the London Review of Books. Since then, she has published two novels, Man at the Helm, dramatised by the BBC and starring Helena Bonham Carter, and Paradise Lodge. Her new book, Reasons to be Cheerful, is her third s