Normal Rules Don't Apply
A beautiful short story collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author
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Publisher Description
Discover the fantastical Sunday Times bestselling short story collection from the award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life.
'Simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world' Gillian Flynn
‘As soon as you get to the end, you’ll be tempted to just start at the beginning’ Independent
‘Funny and poignant in equal measure, you’ll want to read this captivating collection in one mystical sitting.’ Daily Express
Welcome to a world, where nothing is quite what it seems…
In these pages, you’ll meet, among others, a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep, a secretary who watches over the life she has just left, and a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him.
With clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharp social observation, Kate Atkinson conjures a feast for the imagination in a constantly changing multiverse.
Atkinson’s first short story collection in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales.
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‘Hilarious, breathtaking, horrific, irresistible ... [Atkinson is] always in command ... Heart in mouth, I never wanted this book to end’ Sydney Morning Herald
‘Sublime … showcases her superb storytelling and the wit of her writing’ Good Housekeeping
‘Life in all of its surreal, tragic and comic glory is perfectly captured within these pages’ Red
‘Dazzling’ Reader's Digest
Praise for Kate Atkinson:
'Inexhaustibly ingenious' HILARY MANTEL
'A brilliant and profoundly original writer' RACHEL CUSK
'Atkinson is a novelist of unrivalled immediacy, authority, and skill' FINANCIAL TIMES
'One of the country's most innovative, exciting and intelligent authors.' SCOTSMAN
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A world-changing darkness, a queen cursed by a witch and an immaculate conception are just some of the intertwining threads to a larger, overarching tale in Kate Atkinson’s collection of short stories, Normal Rules Don’t Apply. Set in a world just like ours, Atkinson bleeds supernatural, science fiction and magical elements into 11 everyday snapshots of life for a cast of vividly rendered characters, disrupting reality as we—and they—know it. Branching out from the core theme—the end of the world—Atkinson comfortably spreads her intuitive sense for spiking a droll turn of phrase with a sharp bite of truth across a versatile array of genre pieces, including a fairytale, a ghost story and a thriller, each of which add up to the thoroughly satisfying whole. Read once for the head-spinning entertainment factor and immediately flip back to the beginning to catch all the references, call backs and recurring roles you didn’t pick up on the first time.
