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How Margaret Atwood and the literary world is reacting to the revelations by Alice Munro’s daughter

Atwood was a friend of Munro, and told the Star she was “shocked” when she learned about the abuse.

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Andrea Skinner, daughter of celebrated Canadian author Alice Munro, revealed details of her abuse at the hands of her step-father.


Revelations that Nobel laureate Alice Munro was aware her husband had sexually abused her daughter but didn’t act on that knowledge have surprised the literary world and cast a devastating shadow over the Canadian author’s iconic work.

In a story and first-person essay for the Star over the weekend, Andrea Skinner revealed that her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, had started sexually abusing her when she was nine years old.

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