Helen Hudson: 5 books

The short stories in Helen Hudson's "Death of a Mother-in-Law" present characters struggling to connect—from a son reckoning with the legacy of his deceased mother, to a woman in a retirement community trying to win over the woman who cleans her room, to a young boy trying to understand the...

A seemingly peaceful village at the edge of Oxford seethes with the unspoken tensions and frustrations of a group of neighbors. A disparate group of women including a visiting American professor's wife, a school headmistress, a young recluse, a hairdresser and a fanatic churchgoer, react in wildly...

Extreme Remedies and Other Stories collects short stories from Helen Hudson's long writing career along with autobiographical pieces that reveal how the concerns in her fiction intertwine with the concerns of her life. The characters in these stories grasp blindly in pursuit of empathy. A retired...

Poems Found in a Little Box in the Attic… the pages are slightly yellowed…they had been tucked away…were they meant to be hidden or meant to ripen with age and discovered at the right time?...Discover them we did…53 intriguing poems by eight intriguing women hailing from three continents. A delight...

This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume. The contributors explore the science of sleep - what it is, what makes it happen and why we do it - as well as the measurement of sleep, its...