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Britain's finest short-story writer returns with a sparking new collection.
Cockfosters holds a mirror up to the way we live -- the old, comfortable friendships and small, slight connections we make with the people we pass. From the middle-aged school friends on an unplanned journey to the end of the Piccadilly Line to the recipe written to a daughter on the verge of adulthood, Helen Simpson writes with great warmth, wit and candour about the complexities of modern life.
Her previous collections have been compared to Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro, and Verticals and Horizontals is yet another masterpiece -- sly on gender, dazzling on love, and interwoven with the skill we have come to expect from one of our greatest authors.
Cockfosters holds a mirror up to the way we live -- the old, comfortable friendships and small, slight connections we make with the people we pass. From the middle-aged school friends on an unplanned journey to the end of the Piccadilly Line to the recipe written to a daughter on the verge of adulthood, Helen Simpson writes with great warmth, wit and candour about the complexities of modern life.
Her previous collections have been compared to Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro, and Verticals and Horizontals is yet another masterpiece -- sly on gender, dazzling on love, and interwoven with the skill we have come to expect from one of our greatest authors.
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HELEN SIMPSON was born in Bristol in 1959. She spent five years writing for Vogue. She is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
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"This collection is a joy" Bookseller "Helen Simpson is a vital (and pleasurable) voice" -- Melanie White Independent on Sunday "These uplifting and sensitive tales act like a guide to 'the next phase' - whatever that may bring." -- Imogen Lycett Green Daily Mail "Cockfosters is elegant, sane, and - while remaining firmly rooted in ordinary life - gently ground-breaking." -- Theo Tait Sunday Times "Over the course of a quarter century, Simpson has assembled a body of work that delivers one of literature's richest accounts of the post-war lives of girls and women." -- Sarah Crown Guardian
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 191070220X
- ISBN 13 9781910702208
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages112
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