"She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny apprehension of what goes on" - Sunday Telegraph. These are dazzling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro"s stories surprise and delight, turning lives into art, expanding our world and shedding light on the strange workings of the human heart.