In the Driver's SeatBy: Helen Simpson Series: Vintage Contemporaries A dark, dazzling, surprisingly funny new collection of stories (Masterly Adam Mars Jones, The Observer; A virtuoso performance Jane Shilling, The Sunday Telegraph) about single women and wives in various phases of midlifeanxious mothers, besotted mothers, beset mothersin a (futile) search for security and consolation. Helen Simpsons stories are short but by no means small. One story takes the Iraq war