Like you, I’ve been watching writers react like startled geese to the abominable revelations about the late Alice Munro (1931-2024), Canada’s lone Nobel literature laureate, that were disclosed in an essay for the Toronto Star written by Munro’s daughter, Andrea Robin Skinner. Skinner was sexually molested beginning at the age of nine by Munro’s second husband Gerald Fremlin, and her account leaves no possibility of serious doubt of the details. When she confessed this abuse to her mother as a young adult, Munro, who already had ample reasons to suspect her husband of pedophile behaviour, immediately regarded herself as the victim. Fremlin, upon being rumbled, blackmailed and threatened violence against Skinner in writing.