Lives of Girls and Women

Her prose is exact and unflinching, coolly anatomising vengeful grudges, dark crimes and curdled emotions

Guardian

Munro is so good that one gropes for superlatives

Daily Telegraph

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

In Munro's work, nothing can be predicted. Emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate

Margaret Atwood

I still feel that Alice Munro is mine. I am the perfect audience for her brand of quiet, seething feminism

Lena Dunham

She knows us better than we know ourselves. She always has

Washington Times

Reading Munro's cut-crystal prose is unadulterated pleasure

Daily Telegraph

The Nobel laureate’s mastery of the miniature is clear in this early portrait of small-town life

Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

Superb. Its dense weave of colour and texture offers manifold witty surprises and the poetry of place that is the hallmark of Munro’s stories

Steve Davies, Independent

A compelling portrait of the artist as a young girl

Maggie Doherty, The Times Literary Supplement

If you’ve not come across it before, grab a copy pronto

Valerie O’Riordan, Book Munch

This book shows Munro’s gift for finding the extraordinary in the everyday

Good Book Guide

An enriching and rewarding read

Cambridge News

In the simplest of words, and with the greatest of power, she makes us see and hear an ‘unremarkable’ scene we will never forget

Hermione Lee, New York Review of Books

A subtle portrait of a mother and daughter growing into one another.

Moya Crockett, Stylist