Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

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A forged love letter sends a housekeeper on a quest across Canada when a cruel prank has unintended consequences.

In the title story, a prank involving forged letters sends practical housekeeper Johanna Parry across Canada toward a life nobody intended for her. Elsewhere, women and men look back at marriages, first mistakes, old desires and private shame, finding that memories can contain omissions as powerful as what it preserves.

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is a masterly literary short story collection about love, deception, domestic life and aging. For readers seeking literary psychological stories and writing that combines irony with deep compassion, Munro remains exact, fearless and humane.

‘Munro gives each of her stories the rich density of a compacted novel...triumphantly displays impressive feats of flexibility, always gracefully adapted to life's twists and turns’ Sunday Times

About Alice Munro

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.

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