The finest writer of short stories working in the English language today * The Times * The greatest living short story writer -- A. S. Byatt * Sunday Times * A remarkable writer whose major characters emerge in shining clarity... A major talent is at work here * Los Angeles Times * Munro's power of analysis, of sensations and thoughts is almost Proustian in its sureness * New Statesman * Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to last * Observer *