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Motherhood

Vintage Minis
By Helen Simpson
Series: Vintage Minis
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Motherhood by Helen Simpson offers a collection of short stories that explore the multifaceted experiences of women navigating the complexities of motherhood. Each story delves into the joys, challenges, and profound transformations that come with being a mother, highlighting the various stages of life and the impact on personal identity. The writing is both poignant and humorous, providing deep insights into the emotional landscape of parenthood.
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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to witty and insightful tales about the joys and challenges of raising children. The book's collection of stories explores the complexities and humour of family life, offering a relatable glimpse into the experiences of mothers navigating their worlds.

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Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Selected from Helen Simpson's short story collections, this title deals with motherhood.

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between

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Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between.

Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of Motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day gift.

Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree and engrossed in work and sex, now try to solve age-old arguments and search fruitlessly for another hour in the day. Perhaps you know this land well, or perhaps you're entering it for the first time - either way, you need these honest, funny, humane stories from an expert guide.

Selected from Helen Simpson's short story collections Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, and Constitutional.

VINTAGE MINIS - GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human.

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    Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between. Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of Motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day gift. Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a...
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Motherhood by Helen Simpson is praised for its combination of tender storytelling and sharp insights, managing to be humorous while maintaining honesty. The book is part of a series of accessible works from renowned authors that explore fundamental human experiences, appreciated both for their readability and aesthetic appeal.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784872731

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 June 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 73g

Pages: 128

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Fiction General Fiction Helen Simpson Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Vintage Minis

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.

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