'Lorrie Moore with a BBC accent' Jay McInerney
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.
This is an outstanding collection of stories-the product of a new,
original voice
*Hilary Mantel reviewing 'Four Bare Legs in a Bed'*
Of all contemporary writers, Simpson has the most honest, the most
authentic voice... [Her] unfooled but kind eye is matched by her
ear for the ebb and flow of everyday talk. But she does more than
just record: every word rings true. Dear George shimmers with grace
and savagery and wit
*Nigella Lawson*
A stunner of a collection
*New York Times Book Review*
A masterful contemporary exponent of the genre. Simpson now
deserves to be compared with Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro
*Observer*
Short stories are notoriously difficult to sell, but even people
who don't care for the form make an exception for the work of Helen
Simpson...Wickedly funny and painfully true...Dangerously close to
perfection
*The Times*
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