Dear George and Other Stories

Helen Simpson

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Vintage
01 October 1996

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

The third collection from Helen Simpson, prize-winning writer and master of the short story.

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.

By: Helen Simpson
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 133g
ISBN: 9780749395452
ISBN 10: 0749395451
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 October 1996
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 Dear George and Other Stories

Helen Simpson follows Four Bare Legs in a Bed with another delicious collection of short stories. Whether very definitely earthly - the first stirrings of pubescent sexual desire, the cumbersome realities of pregnancy and motherhood - or fantastical - a mysterious Christmas visitor, an oppressive paterfamilias who is transformed into a wild boar - the perfectly crafted stories explore the unspoken boundaries of modern love, family life and the sometimes unbridgeable gulf between men and women. Compulsive reading, if only to discover how a calculating wolf in gourmet's clothing is rewarded for his efforts... (Kirkus UK)