Unless

Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of `The Stone Diaries`, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and `Larry`s Party`, winner of the Orange Prize. `Breathtaking!a masterpiece.` Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only `Goodness`. As Reta seeks the causes of her daughter`s retreat, her enquiry turns into an unflinching, often very funny meditation on society and where we find meaning and hope. `Unless` is a dazzling and daring novel from the undisputed master of extraordinary fictions about so-called `ordinary` lives.