Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 323, [1]. Navy blue cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine. Pictorial dustwrapper (priced £14.99 to front flap).

Author's tenth short story collection. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was nominated for the 2001 National Book Critics' Circle Award. Listed in The Guardian's 2019 rankings of 'The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century'.

A no-nonsense spinster housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime as a result of a teenager's practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles upon an astonishing family secret. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife's nursing-home romance.

'Floating Bridge', 'Family Furnishings', 'Nettles', 'Post and Beam', and 'The Bear Came over the Mountain' were originally published in The New Yorker, while 'Queenie' was first printed in The London Review of Books and subsequently in book form by Profile Books (London).

The collection was the inspiration for two films, with the titular story adapted by director Liza Johnson into the 2014 feature Hateship, Loveship, starring Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld and Nick Nolte, while the final story, 'The Bear Came over the Mountain', was the basis for the 2006 directorial debut of fellow Canadian Sarah Polley, Away from Her.

Munro was the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, cited as a "master of the contemporary short story" by the Swedish Academy. "Munro's best yet." –The New York Times Book Review