Motherhood
Vintage Minis
$22.87
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
29 May 2017
Summary
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 w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872731 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784872733 |
| Author: | Helen Simpson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 29 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 75g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 111mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Vintage Minis |
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Critics Review
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 *
About The Author
Helen Simpson
Helen Simpson is the author of six short-story collections: Cockfosters, 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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