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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

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.

She lives in Port Hope, Ontario, near lake Ontario in Canada.