Editions

Dear George and Other Stories

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780749395452

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 133g

  • RRP: £9.99

Dear George and Other Stories

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

  • ISBN: 9780749395452

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 133g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Of all contemporary writers, Simpson has the most honest, the most authentic voice

    The Times

  • 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

    Observer

  • Biting wit...has me laughing aloud

    Pat Barker

  • Simpson's wit defies formulaic feminism or, indeed, any other -ism... Very, very funny

    Evening Standard

  • Full of good jokes, wonderfully alert to irony and the possibilities of language

    Jonathan Coe

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About the Author

Helen Simpson

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.

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Podcasts

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Helen Simpson discuss Dickens at Christmas

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

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