Carol Shields

Carol Shields won critical acclaim and several prizes for her novels, but she was also a talented short story writer. Now, for the first time her short stories have been collected into one volume.

Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.

With a loving family, good friends and success as a writer, Reta has always enjoyed a life of happiness. Then her daughter abandoned university, family and boyfriend to sit on a street corner with a sign around her neck. At 44, Reta has now discovered the meaning of loss.