Hey Yeah Right Get A Life

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.

"It's a brilliant, painful, funny and courageous book" -- Esther Freud Guardian "Simply tremendous... She is a witch, with the surest hand in contemporary fiction" -- Philip Hensher Spectator "Her limpid, chaste, luscious fiction describes real lives" -- John Lancaster Daily Telegraph "Her stories are - for those who, like me, recognise the truth in every word - like a reprieve... Sharp, poetic and marvellously witty" -- Kate Kellaway Observer "Motherhood has long been a subscription-only sort of subject. Helen Simpson has found a way to tell it, and I hope that people beyond the constituency margins are listening" -- Rachel Cusk Evening Standard