Nina Stibbe was nanny to LRB editor Mary-Kay Wilmers's children in the 1980s. Her witty letters from 55 Gloucester Crescent provide a fascinating glimpse of 80s literary LondonGloucester Crescent, London NW1 was home in the 1980s to Alan Bennett, Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, theatre and opera director Jonathan Miller, biographer Claire Tomalin and novelist and playwright Michael Frayn. The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on November 10, 2013