For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume.

This definitive anthology draws on her earlier collections, Various Miracles and Dressing Up for the Carnival, and includes many stories that have never been published in the UK. It also contains one entirely new story: ' Segue', her last work.

In these stories Carol Shields combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels.
With her exquisite eye for detail and her eagerness to explore the most fundamental of relationships and the wildest of coincidences, she illuminates the absurdities and miracles that grace all of our lives.