Dear George and Other Stories
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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.

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Weight 0.133 kg
Dimensions 1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

160
Publisher

Year Published

1996-6-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0749395451
About The Author

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.

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

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