Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/06/1996
ISBN: 9780749395452
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
Weight: 133g
RRP: £9.99
In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her characteristic blend of comedy and lyricism. Here are tales of young love - successful or thwarted, intense or comic.
From a wedding day for one, through the knotty problems of babies, their conception, arrival and impact on adult lives, to a Lothario receiving his just deserts, and the title story, where a schoolgirl's erotic daydreams during her Shakespeare homework go on to produce blushes of horror.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/06/1996
ISBN: 9780749395452
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
Weight: 133g
RRP: £9.99
Of all contemporary writers, Simpson has the most honest, the most authentic voice
Her stories can be read quickly, knocked back in a single, grateful gulp like an aperitif, or savoured with a slow, cool intoxication... She is Katherine Mansfield's natural successor
Biting wit...has me laughing aloud
Simpson's wit defies formulaic feminism or, indeed, any other -ism... Very, very funny
Full of good jokes, wonderfully alert to irony and the possibilities of language