CockfostersBy: Helen Simpson A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year In these nine virtuoso stories, Helen Simpson turns her wickedly wry wit to the stations of life, the vulnerabilities of age, and the lives of ordinary people in complicated times. The title story follows two old friends as they ride the London Underground to Cockfostersthe end of the lineto retrieve a pair of newly prescribed bifocals. Erewhon depicts a reversal of gender roles as a man lies