Description

Discover Alice Munro’s intimate and emotional short stories about women’s choices that can quietly change lives.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, Alice Munro writes with unmatched acuity about the pressures of everyday life.

In Runaway, women and men face betrayals, lost children, failed escapes and the strange bargains that love can demand. A woman tries to leave a volatile marriage. Others confront desire, aging, memory, shame and the consequences of choices that once seemed almost accidental.

Runaway is an essential literary short story collection featuring marriage stories, intimate drama and fiction that understands how quietly devastating ordinary life can be.

‘The way to do it justice is to read it. Read Munro!’ Jonathan Franzen

‘These stories are breathtaking – they leave you winded with their toughness and brilliance’ Guardian

Publisher Review

Munro is one of my all-time favourite writers. She seems to really see people, like a mind reader who knows what her characters are thinking before they do do, and tells their stories with simplicity and empathy. -- Natasha Lunn * Red * Runaway is so good I don't want to talk about it. Quotation can't do the book justice, and neither can synopsis. The way to do it justice is to read it. Read Munro! Read Munro! -- Jonathan Franzen * New York Times Book Review * Millions of words have been spilt in attempts to tell us exactly what it means to be human. In Runaway, Munro performs that very miracle * The Times * A beautiful, echoing collection, and a demonstration of perfected and unflinching form -- Ali Smith * Scotsman * These stories are breathtaking - they leave you winded with their toughness and brilliance -- Helen Simpson * Guardian *