Four Bare Legs in Bed
Author(s): Helen Simpson
Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies. By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M. Forster Award.
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Winner of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 1991.
"The most sensuous writer in the land" -- Fay Weldon "These stories of sex pack a truly original pungency... kicking off belly-laughs or melting you with an apt phrase, Simpson makes a delectable debut" Mail on Sunday "She can be sparingly tragic and unsparingly funny... A unique writer" -- Ruth Rendell "Outstanding... You should read her" The Times "Dazzlingly original... Simpson's black-hearted humour is something to relish" Sunday Times
Helen Simpson is the author of Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, Constitutional, In-Flight Entertainment and A Bunch of Fives. In 1991 she was chosen as the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and won the Somerset Maugham Award. In 1993 she was chosen as one of Granta's twenty Best of Young British Novelists. She has also received the Hawthornden prize, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. She lives in London.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.141
- : 01 May 1991
- : 197mm X 127mm X 11mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Helen Simpson
- : Paperback
- : 823.914
- : 192