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Sheila Munro is the daughter of one of the world's most admired fiction writers: Alice Munro, three-time winner of Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award. In Lives of Mothers and Daughters, she reveals what it was like to grow up with a mother of such tremendous renown. At the core of the book lies a loving and intimate biography of Alice, presented as only a daughter can. Sheila traces the story back to her ancestors, who left Scotland in the early 19th century, before telling of Alice's birth in 1931, her youth growing up on an Ontario farm, and her two marriages, and two grandchildren--Sheila's own children.
Sheila has a tale to tell that's her own as well, involving her writerly aspirations and her efforts to forge a unique path while following in her mother's footsteps. And so, from her perspective as both an author and a mother, Sheila writes frankly about her mother and her mother's writing. The legions of devoted Alice Munro fans will glimpse real-life settings, situations and characters that have worked their way into her fiction as Sheila offers a behind-the-scenes tour (replete with Munro family snapshots) of the inspirations for the tales Munro fans know and love.

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Sheila Munro establishes herself as... a writer of sophistication and skill. Writing about a literary figure as revered as Alice Munro requires not only integrity but considerable verbal dexterity. Sheila Munro has both. <br>- Montreal Gazette <br> A perfect mix of biography and personal memoir. <br>- Hamilton Spectator <br> A restrained and respected entry in the child-of-a-famous-writing-parent genre.... What comes through strongly in Sheila Munro' s account... is Alice' s youthful tenacity and ambition. <br>- Catherine Bush, Globe and Mail <br> The book is chock-full of lesser bombs, threatening to erupt but gently blanketed in love, understanding and affection. <br>- Carla Lucchetta, Vancouver Sun <br> While students of Alice Munro will relish the biographical revelations, the other side of the equation - the daughter' s struggle for autonomy - has its own claim to uniqueness... To her credit and her reader' s profit, she is clear-sighted about her predicament. <br>- Joan Givner, Toronto Star<br>

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