Unless

The novel was published for the first time in 2002, and it was a culmination of Carol Shields' professional life as a writer, as she passed away shortly after its publication. The novel received great popularity and success and was nominated for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. It also won several awards. It was listed among the most read books in 2011. The novel "Unless" explores, like Shields' literary works, the remarkable extraordinary side of the natural life of an ordinary woman.