Lives of Girls and Women

I still feel that Alice Munro is mine. I am the perfect audience for her brand of quiet, seething feminism -- Lena Dunham Munro is so good that one gropes for superlatives * Daily Telegraph * Superb. Its dense weave of colour and texture offers manifold witty surprises and the poetry of place that is the hallmark of Munros stories -- Steve Davies * Independent * In Munro's work, nothing can be predicted. Emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate -- Margaret Atwood Her prose is exact and unflinching, coolly anatomising vengeful grudges, dark crimes and curdled emotions * Guardian * The Nobel laureates mastery of the miniature is clear in this early portrait of small-town life -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian * She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion -- Jonathan Franzen She knows us better than we know ourselves. She always has * Washington Times * Reading Munro's cut-crystal prose is unadulterated pleasure * Daily Telegraph * A compelling portrait of the artist as a young girl -- Maggie Doherty * The Times Literary Supplement *

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canadas Governor Generals Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.