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Helen Simpson

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born

January 01, 1959 in The United Kingdom

gender

female

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls' school. She worked at Vogue for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while her book Hey Yeah Right Get A Life, a series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize.
In 1993, she was selected as one of Granta's top 20 novelists under the age of 40.
In 2009, she donated the short story The Tipping Point to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story...more

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Books by Helen Simpson

Average rating: 3.55 · 487 ratings · 95 reviews · 22 distinct works

	In the Driver's Seat 3.52 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Getting a Life 3.73 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	In-Flight Entertainment 3.12 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	My rating:
	London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea 3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Four Bare Legs in a Bed 3.33 avg rating — 30 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dear George and Other Stories 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The London Ritz Book Of English Breakfasts 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Bunch of Fives 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	Dear George and Other Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	The Anatomy of Murder by Helen Simpson, Francis Iles, Freeman Wills Crofts 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1937	My rating:

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“Then I reached down into myself and managed to say, 'you should celebrate, your birthday should be celebrated, because the world's a better place with you in it.' May you continue to pile on the years, but with more pleasure from now on.”
― Helen Simpson

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“Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.”
― Helen Simpson, London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea

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“First let me take a piece of chalk and draw a circle round you, so you're safe. There. Now I'll stand guard, keeping a weather eye open for anything threatening, and we can catch up with each other while we wait.”
― Helen Simpson