Love, Nina: A nanny writes home, by Nina Stibbe

Nina is a talented author, even as a young woman writing home from London to her sister Victoria.  The letters begin in 1982 and report the daily lives and sometime verbatim conversations of the family she lives with and their friends.  The family consists of Mary Kay Wilmers, deputy editor of the London Review of Books¸ her sons, and the family friends and neighbors include playwright Alan Bennett, doctor, theater and opera director, Jonathan Miller, and novelist Michael Frayn.  Without such famous names, perhaps this might never have seen the light of day 35 or so years later, but it is very amusing.  320 pp.