For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories – some previously unpublished – are gathered together in one volume. 'Carol Shields' stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure' Alice Munro In the Collected Stories we bring together Carol Shields' original short-story volumes, Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival, as well as many stories not previously published in the UK, including 'Segue', her last work. In these stories the author combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels such as The Stone Diaries and Unless.