Open Secrets
Author: Alice Munro
‘A superb collection… Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism – it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion’ Independent Open Secrets, Nobel Prize in Literature winner Alice Munro’s eighth book, consists of eight stories, each one as rich as a full novel. Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from C….Read More
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