Alice Munro is a writer’s writer. Her prose is clear yet solid, like ice with no flaws. Her stories march firmly from beginning to end. And you march with them, reading in perfect time to the rhythms of her writing.   Dear Life is a collection of fourteen short stories published in 2012. By then Munro had received numerous awards for her work, including the Man Booker Prize for International fiction. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature as ‘master of the con