Hey Yeah Right Get A Life

<p><b>Helen Simpson's third collection is a bold, honest exploration of the trials and the rewards of motherhood. </b><br><br><b>‘Her stories are - for those who, like me, recognise the truth in every word - like a reprieve... Sharp, poetic and marvellously witty’ Kate Kellaway, <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>Here are tales of a highflyer stuck at an interminable Burns Night celebration, increasingly aware of the babysitter waiting for her at home; an exhausted mother longing for adult conversation but whose son unwittingly precludes it; and a teenage girl whose fraught encounter with a harried mum of one brings newfound appreciation for her own capable mother of four. Most strikingly of all we meet Dorrie, whose efforts to calm her tinderbox of a family leave her struggling to contain her own emotions. <br><br><i>Hey Yeah Right Get a Life </i>is a singular achievement: relatable, perceptive and utterly poignant.<br><br><b>‘It's a brilliant, painful, funny and courageous book’ Esther Freud, <i>Guardian</i></b></p>