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  • Published: 18 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141967844
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 560

What the Nanny Saw



An irresistible new novel from the Number One bestselling author of The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy

Nanny required to take care of needs of busy professional London family

When penniless student Ali Sparrow answers Bryony and Nick Skinner's advertisement her life changes overnight.

She is catapulted into the privileged and excessive world of London's financial elite. At first everything is overwhelming - from twins who speak their own language to a teenage girl with weight issues and a son almost her own age. Then there is Bryony, who has one eye on her dazzling career and the other on Ali's failings.

When boom turns to bust and a scandal erupts that suggests something corrupt has been hatched behind the Skinners' front door, their private life is suddenly public news. And as Ali becomes indispensible, she realizes she's witness to things she probably shouldn't see.

But is she principled enough to keep the family's secrets when the press come prowling for the inside scoop? Or will she dish the dirt on the family who never saw her as anything other than part of the scenery?

  • Published: 18 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141967844
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 560

About the author

Fiona Neill

Fiona Neill is an author and journalist who has written four Sunday Times bestsellers. Her first novel The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy, based on her hugely popular column in The Times, was an international bestseller that was published in twenty-five countries. Her last widely acclaimed novel The Betrayals was a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick 2017.

Fiona worked as a foreign correspondent in Central America for six years and returned to the UK as assistant editor on Marie Claire before joining The Times Magazine as assistant editor. She has written for many publications including The Times, Sunday Times Style, and The Telegraph Magazine as well as a screenplay of her first novel for the BFI.


Fiona grew up in rural North Norfolk and lives in London with her husband and three children.
Discover more about Fiona and her work at fionaneill.co.uk

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Praise for What the Nanny Saw

So well-written, with such believable and engaging characters, it was an absolute joy to read

Daily Mail

Packed with observations of wince-making accuracy . . . Superb entertainment

The Times

Neill's characters are so cleverly depicted, you feel as if you've met at least one of them before

Vogue

Praise for Fiona Neill

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No one writes about modern family with more truth and authenticity

Lisa Jewell

Stands out from the crowd

Grazia

A novel made for heated book club debates

Stylist

Sometimes touching, sometimes shocking

Daily Mail

Vivid and insightful

Guardian

Utterly unputdownable

Helen Walsh

Raises all kinds of contemporary issues with wit and sensitivity

Times

Topical, tense and addictive

Good Housekeeping

Cracking

Prima

Engrossing

My Weekly

Astonishingly powerful

Nicola Moriarty

Incisive, smart and at times darkly funny

Gillian McAllister

Brilliantly observed

Kathryn Hughes