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Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Larrys Party, winner of the Orange Prize. Breathtakinga 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 daughters 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.