Motherhood

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

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