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Biographical note
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.Of all contemporary writers, Simpson has the most honest, the most authentic voice
The Times
Her stories can be read quickly, knocked back in a single, grateful gulp like an aperitif, or savoured with a slow, cool intoxication... She is Katherine Mansfield's natural successor
Observer
Biting wit...has me laughing aloud
Pat Barker
Simpson's wit defies formulaic feminism or, indeed, any other -ism... Very, very funny
Evening Standard
Full of good jokes, wonderfully alert to irony and the possibilities of language
Jonathan Coe