Came late to Alice Munro`s Too Much Happiness but so happy I did come to it.
Ten short stories told with the author`s characteristic touch of restraint but balanced by warmth and compassion. These tales encompass life as it is lived among the slightly privileged, the not- so-lucky and the downright desperate souls among us. Women trapped in terrifying marriages, women who lose their husbands to the most unlikely women, trusting women, conniving women, women who contrive to stay happy, to stay safe, to stay alive. Women who come face-to-face with their past, women who watch their grown-up sons go to seed, women who recall their dreadful childhood regressions with a shudder... and women who can and do suffer from yes, too much happiness.
The Nobel prize winner is really in her element here.