Author: Atkinson, Kate Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 23 May 2024 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Penguin (Transworld)) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 240 pages197 x 127 x 15 | 172g 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, youll be tempted to just start at the beginning Independent˜Funny and poignant in equal measure, youll 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, youll 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.Atkinsons 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
