HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE PB A FORMAT

In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. ‘No one could possibly dispute Munros greatness’ Daily Mail The past, as Alice Munros characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isnt. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories havent been savoured, recalled in the mind, and boxed away, its as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways in a collection filled with both underlying heartbreak and hope. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009