{"product_id":"normal-rules-dont-apply-a-dazzling-collection-of-short-stories-from-the-bestselling-author-of-life-after-life-9781804990803","title":"Normal Rules Don't Apply: A dazzling collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Life After Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThe Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 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. 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. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 23 May 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Transworld Publishers Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. Simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGILLIAN FLYNN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What really binds these stories is their underlying theme, which has perhaps always been Atkinsons 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 '\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Kate Atkinson:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInexhaustibly 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 170g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 197 x 127 x 15 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781804990803\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Atkinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46090679189754,"sku":"9781804990803","price":7.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/1716576843274_book.jpg?v=1716623870","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/normal-rules-dont-apply-a-dazzling-collection-of-short-stories-from-the-bestselling-author-of-life-after-life-9781804990803","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}