# Hey Yeah Right Get A Life

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- Authors: [Helen Simpson](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-simpson)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-01-10

## Description

Helen Simpson's third collection is a bold, honest exploration of the trials and the rewards of motherhood. ‘Her stories are - for those who, like me, recognise the truth in every word - like a reprieve... Sharp, poetic and marvellously witty’ Kate Kellaway, Observer 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. Hey Yeah Right Get a Life is a singular achievement: relatable, perceptive and utterly poignant. ‘It's a brilliant, painful, funny and courageous book’ Esther Freud, Guardian

## Editions

### Hey Yeah Right Get A Life

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-422-2
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2019-01-10
- Language: en_GB