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 ExpressWelcome 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. ____________`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 DigestPraise 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
