Welcome to motherhood ?
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?
re entering it for the first time ?
either way, you need these honest, sharply funny, humane stories from an expert guide.
Selected from Helen Simpson?
s short story collections Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life and Constitutional
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.
BIG IDEAS.
LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world?
s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Language by Xiaolu Guo
Fatherhood by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Eating by Nigella Lawson
Drinking by John Cheever
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