Simon Vance

The problem comes when Clark insists that she blackmail the man's widow with this fabricated dirt. Afraid to defy him, but unwilling to go through with it, Carla ends up confiding in the widow how unhappy she is with Clark. The older woman talks her into leaving him.

The problem comes when Clark insists that she blackmail the man's widow with this fabricated dirt. Afraid to defy him, but unwilling to go through with it, Carla ends up confiding in the widow how unhappy she is with Clark. The older woman talks her into leaving him.

The same day, Carla boards a bus to Toronto, within touching distance of a new life, when she realizes that it would have no meaning without Clark infecting her with misery. She goes back to him only to discover a short while later that he has killed her pet goat, a kind of surrogate child, in an apparent act of vengeance.

The same day, Carla boards a bus to Toronto, within touching distance of a new life, when she realizes that it would have no meaning without Clark infecting her with misery. She goes back to him only to discover a short while later that he has killed her pet goat, a kind of surrogate child, in an apparent act of vengeance.

Unable to accept this reality and what it means for their marriage, Carla wills herself into a state of denial, which is where the story leaves her. You wonder what Fremlin made of Runaway and of the other stories about trapped women that Munro produced in her final years of creativity.

Unable to accept this reality and what it means for their marriage, Carla wills herself into a state of denial, which is where the story leaves her. You wonder what Fremlin made of Runaway and of the other stories about trapped women that Munro produced in her final years of creativity.

Were her efforts to portray him as a kind of saviour figure in the interviews she gave around this time a form of compensation for the less flattering picture she was painting in her fiction? Or was this double bookkeeping an expression of the same denial that the character Carla, a portrait of the artist as a desperate mythomaniac, embraces at the end of the story?

Were her efforts to portray him as a kind of saviour figure in the interviews she gave around this time a form of compensation for the less flattering picture she was painting in her fiction? Or was this double bookkeeping an expression of the same denial that the character Carla, a portrait of the artist as a desperate mythomaniac, embraces at the end of the story?

Whatever the answer, Munro's relationship with Framlin enabled her to do her greatest work. that so much of that work now reads like an indictment of the relationship is a bit of paradox. Nabokov once said he felt the initial shiver of Lolita after reading a newspaper story about an ape who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing of a charcoaled by an animal.

Whatever the answer, Munro's relationship with Framlin enabled her to do her greatest work. that so much of that work now reads like an indictment of the relationship is a bit of paradox. Nabokov once said he felt the initial shiver of Lolita after reading a newspaper story about an ape who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing of a charcoaled by an animal.

This sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage. It appears that this was Monroe's subject too. Andrea has not read Runaway. But when I described the story to her and its depiction of a woman who fears that she would not exist without her stifling husband, she confessed to feeling a tremor of sympathy.

This sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage. It appears that this was Monroe's subject too. Andrea has not read Runaway. But when I described the story to her and its depiction of a woman who fears that she would not exist without her stifling husband, she confessed to feeling a tremor of sympathy.

I think she was so scared that she actually wouldn't exist without him, she said of her mother's relationship with Fremlin. At the same time, Andrea stressed that she does not forgive her mother and is indifferent to her legacy. For years after Fremlin's conviction, Andrea was estranged from her siblings.

I think she was so scared that she actually wouldn't exist without him, she said of her mother's relationship with Fremlin. At the same time, Andrea stressed that she does not forgive her mother and is indifferent to her legacy. For years after Fremlin's conviction, Andrea was estranged from her siblings.

They were ultimately reunited with the help of the Gate House, a Toronto-based organization that supports survivors of childhood sexual abuse. In 2014, Jenny, Sheila, and Andrew, their stepbrother, went there seeking guidance on how to reconcile with Andrea. So ingrained was the silence around the story of her abuse that this was the first time the three of us had spoken about it.

They were ultimately reunited with the help of the Gate House, a Toronto-based organization that supports survivors of childhood sexual abuse. In 2014, Jenny, Sheila, and Andrew, their stepbrother, went there seeking guidance on how to reconcile with Andrea. So ingrained was the silence around the story of her abuse that this was the first time the three of us had spoken about it.

Andrew wrote in his own essay for The Star, also published this summer. Each of the siblings wrote Andrea a letter, and their relationships were slowly rekindled. Today, Andrea is a regular volunteer at the Gatehouse, where she leads self-care groups. Her essay has been widely celebrated for raising awareness about childhood sexual abuse, which she now sees as her guiding mission.

Andrew wrote in his own essay for The Star, also published this summer. Each of the siblings wrote Andrea a letter, and their relationships were slowly rekindled. Today, Andrea is a regular volunteer at the Gatehouse, where she leads self-care groups. Her essay has been widely celebrated for raising awareness about childhood sexual abuse, which she now sees as her guiding mission.

Many people have compared the episode to an Alice Munro story, but unlike the characters in her mother's work, Andrea spoke up.

Many people have compared the episode to an Alice Munro story, but unlike the characters in her mother's work, Andrea spoke up.