Who Do You Think You Are?: A BBC Between the Covers pick from the Nobel Prize-winning writer

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A girl from a poor Canadian town reinvents herself through study, marriage and work, but cannot outrun her past.

Previously published as The Beggar Maid and chosen as a BBC Between the Covers pick, Who Do You Think You Are? follows Rose from a poor Ontario childhood into the unstable freedoms of adulthood.

Growing up behind a store with her father, stepmother Flo and half-brother Brian, Rose grows up amid humiliation, family violence, and acute class awareness. Education, marriage, affairs, work in theatre and repeated reinventions carry her away from home, yet shame and memory keep returning in altered form.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, the is literary fiction for readers looking for coming-of-age writing, class, desire, family conflict and potential answers to the difficult question contained in a name.

'A work of great brilliance and depth... almost Proustian in its sureness' New Statesman

A girl from a poor Canadian town reinvents herself through study, marriage and work, but cannot outrun her past. Previously published as The Beggar Maid and chosen as a BBC Between the Covers pick, Who Do You Think You Are? follows Rose from a poor Ontario childhood into the unstable freedoms of ...

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About the author

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Lite...

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