Afternoon Reading - Too Much Happiness - Some Women

Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro. Set in a time when 'the streets were sprinkled with water to lay the dust in the summer' and 'people with leukemia went to bed, and after some weeks' or months' decline in a tragic atmosphere, they died.' At the Crozier house a man lies dying. When his wife is at work, his stepmother lays on a form of distraction and the young girl brought in to help care for him begins to understand the complexities of adult life. Read by Barbara Barnes. Abridged by Sally Marmion.