Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro ( Nobel Laureate in Literature i

Published by Penguin Books, 1990, softcover, 250 pages, condition: very good.

Lives of Girls and Women is the intensely readable story of Del Jordan grappling with life's problems as she moves from the carelessness of childhood through uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience.

Here is Del as she goes through each crisis of growing up - her dreams of becoming famous; the embarrassment she feels when her mother sets out to sell encyclopedias to farmers; the way her own body humiliates her by growing breasts and longing for sex; her desperate attempts to fall in love with a boy who makes her want to wash her hair.

Del is sexy, touching and very funny - and she is about to become a woman...

Alice Munro was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles.