The collected stories

For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories - some previously unpublished - are gathered together in one volume. `Carol Shields' stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure' Alice Munro In the Collected Stories we bring together Carol Shields' original short-story volumes, Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival, as well as many stories not previously published in the UK, including `Segue', her last work. In these stories the author combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels such as The Stone Diaries and Unless.