Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.

Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may—or may not—have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.

A startling and funny feast for the imagination, these stories conjure a multiverse of subtly connected worlds while illuminating the webs of chance and connection among us all.

REVIEWS

"Hilarious, breathtaking, horrific, irresistible ... [Atkinson is] always in command ... Heart in mouth, I never wanted this book to end." ― Sydney Morning Herald

"Atkinson has the happy knack of capturing the nature of her characters with arch aplomb." ― Daily Mail

"Dazzling ... Most striking of all is the abiding sense of infectious, slightly bonkers fun." ― Reader's Digest

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0593469880
Pages: 224