Normal Rules Don’t Apply: A dazzling collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Life After Life

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 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 ____________ 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 Sunday Times bestseller, August 2023 —- ISBN: 9780857529183