Motherhood

<p><b>Enjoy Helen Simpson&#146;s sharply funny humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother&#146;s Day gift.</b><br><br> Welcome to motherhood &#150; 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&#146;re entering it for the first time &#150; either way you need these honest funny humane stories from an expert guide.<br><br>Selected from Helen Simpson&#146;s short story collections Dear George Hey Yeah Right Get a Life and Constitutional<br><br>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.<br><br>A series of short books by the world&#146;s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human<br><br>Also in the Vintage Minis series:<br><i>Language </i>by Xiaolu Guo<br><i>Fatherhood </i>by Karl Ove Knausgaard<br><i>Eating </i>by Nigella Lawson <br><i>Drinking</i> by John Cheever</p>