What the Nanny Saw, Fiona Neill
What the Nanny Saw, Fiona Neill
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What the Nanny Saw

Author: Fiona Neill

Narrator: Alison Larkin

Unabridged: 15 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/02/2012

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

It's the summer of 2008. For the past decade, Nick and Bryony Skinner and their four children have ridden high on the economic boom, but their luck is about to run out. Suddenly, the privileged family finds itself at the center of a financial scandal:

Their Central London house is besieged by the press, Nick disappears, and Bryony and the children become virtual prisoners in their own home. And Ali, their trusted nanny, watches it all. As the babysitter, she brings a unique insider-outsider perspective to the family, seeing far more than even the family itself is capable of. But when a reporter with a personal connection to the story comes asking her for the inside scoop, will Ali remain loyal to the family who never saw her as anything other than the help? Or will she tell her side?

Written with Fiona Neill's delicious humor and addictive style, What the Nanny Saw is a keenly observed, often comical chronicle of the urban wealthy elite, of parents who are often too busy to notice what is going on under their own noses, of children left to their own devices, and of a young nanny thrown into a role she doesn't know how to play. It is a morality tale of our time, a tale of betrayal, the corrosive influence of too much money, and why good people sometimes do bad things.


About Fiona Neill

Fiona Neill is the author of the international bestseller Slummy Mummy and the Sunday Times bestseller What the Nanny Saw. Currently a features writer for the Times magazine, she is the author and creator of its popular "Slummy Mummy" column. After working abroad for six years as a foreign correspondent in Latin America, she returned to the UK to become assistant editor at Marie Claire and, later, at the Times magazine. Brought up in Norfolk, she now lives in London with her husband and three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sabrina

When I began reading What the Nanny Saw I wasn’t overly impressed or bowled away by the first few chapters. It seemed slow to start and only mildly interesting. However, as I delved deeper into the book, I found it harder and harder to put down. The plot was absolutely compelling. If I were to rate t......more

Goodreads review by K

At first glance you might think that this book is another story of a young female being overworked while caring for privileged children of rich snobby parents, ala The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin. But if you keep up with this story you come across a much deeper read that involves the 2008 banki......more

Goodreads review by Kelly

I won this in a Goodreads giveaway. I agree with other reviewers that it was slow-starting at first. I hung in there because the subject matter interested me (although I would have been fine with a lot less financial details). I was very annoyed about halfway through the book when a background story......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

There has been a lot of commentary recently about chick lit and its place in the literary spectrum - with What the Nanny Saw, Fiona Neill makes a beautiful riposte. It has all the components of a chick lit novel - over-the-top characters, a slightly contrived situation, a romance that you can see co......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie

What the Nanny Saw gives an intimate, indepth look at the world of high finance in 2008 London from the perspective of a nanny in the home of an investment banker, Nick Skinner and his wife, Bryony, owner of her own PR company. Their life of privilege includes a five-story house in the best section......more