Normal Rules Don't Apply : A dazzling collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

Normal Rules Don't Apply

A dazzling collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Life After Life

By: Kate Atkinson

Paperback | 27 August 2024

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From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life


In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; 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, a constantly changing multiverse in which nothing is quite as it seems.

'What really binds these stories is their underlying theme, which has perhaps always been Atkinson's true subject- the nature of storytelling itself' Times Literary Supplement

'Life in all of its surreal, tragic and comic glory is perfectly captured within these pages' Red

'Sublime' Good Housekeeping

'Dazzling' Reader's Digest

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Praise for Kate Atkinson-

'Inexhaustibly ingenious' HILARY MANTEL

'Simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world' GILLIAN FLYNN

'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

About the Author

Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. Her most recent novel, Shrines of Gaiety, set in the aftermath of the First World War, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life, an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription. Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Industry Reviews
What really binds these stories is their underlying theme, which has perhaps always been Atkinson's true subject: the nature of storytelling itself. She can be very funny, but she is highly serious about the idea that human existence is bound up with words... If you're thinking about what fiction means, no invocation could be more thought-provoking or ironically complex * Times Literary Supplement *

What joy! A loosely connected collection of short stories from Kate Atkinson. Life in all of its surreal, tragic and comic glory is perfectly captured within these pages. * Red *

Sublime ... showcases her superb storytelling and the wit of her writing * Good Housekeeping *

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 *

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