Are there ANY audiobooks about nannies...

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which don't revolve around sex or murder? I typed 'nanny' into the search bar on audible and they're nearly all either trashy or dark. I don't mind a bit of sex if the overall book is clever/funny (I always enjoyed Sophie Kinsella for example) but most of them just seem to be soft porn.

I've got 'A Spoonful of Sugar' about a Norland nanny, focussing on her work during the war years. I thought that was really good. I've also got 'The Nanny' by Melissa Nathan, which is alright I suppose, not a favourite, and 'The Irish Nanny', again sat during the war. I've yet to start that one but it has a whole lot of 5-star reviews.

Anyway, I don't mind whether it's historical or modern day, autobiographical or fiction, but as I say - limited sex and no murder!!

Thanks!

Why Nannies?

It's my chosen career so I can relate, and it interests me.

Sure I have some stories with Nanny’s in them

do they have to be audio or can you read the books if I can find the titles

I think three books about quite a specific career that don’t feature sex or murder is quite a lot really. Are there three books about working in a bookmakers that don’t feature sex or murder?

Ive got a feeling I’ve read a Penny Vincienzi (pretty sure that’s not how you spell it!) about a nanny.

The nanny diaries abd the nanny returns

The nanny diaries abd the nanny returns

Another vote for The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus if it's available on audio. I loved it!

The nanny diaries is a lovely book.

If you like Sophie Kinsella read Madeline Wickam (her actual name) sleeping arrangements. Its not about nannys at all but one of the main charachters is the nanny of one of the families!

You might like Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe. I haven't read it but there was an essay about it in the last edition if Slightly Foxed. This us from the blurb:

In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and triumphs as a nanny to a London family. Nina Stibbe's Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life is the laugh-out-loud story of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family.

I was also going up suggest “Love, Nina”.

You might find some others using search terms such as ‘au pair’ and more historically ’mothers help’

There’s a few listed here: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/04/26/fiction-nanny-booklist

If historical what about governesses? That would give you Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë.

Peter Pan?