When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chrissy worships her. But when Queenie runs away at eighteen, their lives quietly diverge.

This book includes a remarkable early collection of stories by Alice Munro, the bestselling author of Dear Life, and one of the greatest fiction writers of our time. "Alice Munro's stories are miraculous." (Sunday Times). "No one else can - or should be allowed to - write like the great Alice Munro." (Julian Barnes). "She sets down the pains and pleasures of living in a spare, singing prose, not a word wasted." (Daily Telegraph). "Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to last." (Observer). "She's the most savage writer I've ever read,...