Description

Open Secrets consists of eight luminous and poetic stories, each one as rich as a novel.

‘A superb collection… Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism – it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion’ Independent

Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

Publisher Review

Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability, [Alice Munro is] an unrivalled chronicler of human nature * Sunday Times * A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion * Independent * Alice Munro excites the writer in me - there is something new to learn from her in every sentence * A. S. Byatt * Alice Munro's stories are miraculous -- Lucy Hughes-Hallet * Sunday Times * Open Secrets by the wonderful Alice Munro, is a collection of short stories, written with exquisite style -- Joanna Trollope