"Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready" The Times "Munro transcends the short form" Sunday Telegraph "Munro's artistry ... recalls the close attention and cool detachment of a psychoanalyst" Times Literary Supplement "Munro is so good that one gropes for superlatives...(her) stories read like short novels; entire lives comprehended in a peripheral glimpse, an uncanny anticipation, a sudden intuition" Sunday Telegraph "Perfect for any lucky person who has not yet discovered her, and a treat for her die-hard fans" Psychologies "Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time" Margaret Atwood "Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America" Jonathan Franzen "Alice Munro, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize, is sometimes called the 'Canadian Chekhov' for her mastery of the short-story form. This new selection... proves that the nickname, for all that it's become a cliche, is well deserved" Time Out "Dazzling" New Statesman