Motherhood

Vintage Minis

Helen Simpson

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English

Vintage
29 May 2017

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Series: Vintage Minis

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between

Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day gift.

Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree and engrossed in work and sex, now try to solve age-old arguments and search fruitlessly for another hour in the day. Perhaps you know this land well, or perhaps you're entering it for the first time - either way, you need these honest funny humane stories from an expert guide.

Selected from Helen Simpson's short story collections Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life and Constitutional

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By: Helen Simpson
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 73g
ISBN: 9781784872731
ISBN 10: 1784872733
Series: Vintage Minis
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 29 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Helen Simpson's sixth short-story collection, Cockfosters, follows Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005) and In-Flight Entertainment (2010). A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories (2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. She lives in London.

Reviews for Motherhood: Vintage Minis

Helen Simpson is a writer with such a gift for sweet tenderness that one could almost overlook the glittering sharpness of the insights... Not many writers manage to be as funny as Helen Simpson without sacrificing the honesty that her writing unmistakably has -- Philip Hensher * Mail on Sunday * Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world's most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human... They look good and read well. That's win/win in our book. * Stylist *