A Bunch of Fives

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, <i>Four Bare Legs in a Bed, </i>Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These wonderfully funny and penetrating stories take on the full stretch, from birth to death and everything in between, in writing of remarkable originality and clarity. Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, <i>Four Bare Legs in a Bed, </i>Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These wonderfully funny and penetrating stories take on the full stretch, from birth to death and everything in between, in writing of remarkable originality and clarity.