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Helen Simpson offers acute portraits of lives in transition: of changes for the better, lives stalled and in freefall; of love,loss, and sudden revelations.
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Review:
`queen of domestic wryness'
--The Guardian
"...Simpson's art is...refined for being so seemingly effortless, unforced and entertaining." --New Statesman
"This collection is as brilliant as her previous ones." --The Lady
"The collection as a whole is carefully organised, with the lightest piece butting against the most death-haunted one..." --Guardian
"if its subject matter is undeniably uncheery, it is written with a lightness of touch - and a deep but understated poeticism' --Telegraph
One of the most sharply funny writers in England today -- The Times Literary Supplement
'Simpson's gifts are a lyrical vocabulary, an authoritative form, a special funny-sad quality and a subtlety of understanding' -- The Times
'When it comes to contemporary maestros of the short-story form, Helen Simpson is up there with Alice Munro...' -- Sunday Times
Book of a Lifetime. -- Independent
Short story credits In Flight Entertainment. -- Sunday Times magazine
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--The Guardian
"...Simpson's art is...refined for being so seemingly effortless, unforced and entertaining." --New Statesman
"This collection is as brilliant as her previous ones." --The Lady
"The collection as a whole is carefully organised, with the lightest piece butting against the most death-haunted one..." --Guardian
"if its subject matter is undeniably uncheery, it is written with a lightness of touch - and a deep but understated poeticism' --Telegraph
One of the most sharply funny writers in England today -- The Times Literary Supplement
'Simpson's gifts are a lyrical vocabulary, an authoritative form, a special funny-sad quality and a subtlety of understanding' -- The Times
'When it comes to contemporary maestros of the short-story form, Helen Simpson is up there with Alice Munro...' -- Sunday Times
Book of a Lifetime. -- Independent
Short story credits In Flight Entertainment. -- Sunday Times magazine
'A masterful contemporary exponent of the genre. Simpson now deserves to be compared with Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro' Observer
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- PublisherAUDIOGO
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1408492547
- ISBN 13 9781408492543
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages184
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