'A masterful contemporary exponent of the genre. Simpson now deserves to be compared with Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro' - Observer
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.
When it comes to contemporary maestros of the short-story form,
Helen Simpson is up there with Alice Munro... If they had any sense
the 10:10 carbon-reduction campaign would distribute this book for
free, such is its power
*The Sunday Times*
The best short story writer now working in English
*Financial Times*
In-Flight Entertainment is quite delectable, confirming her as the
queen of the comic short story
*Sunday Telegraph*
Simpson's gifts are a lyrical vocabulary, an authoritative form, a
special funny-sad quality and a subtlety of understanding... Add in
political argument, and she is a key voice for our time
*The Times*
It's all packed with Simpson's deadpan wit - she is one of the most
sharply funny writers in England today
*Times Literary Supplement*
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