Normal Rules Don't Apply

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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.

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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

Atkinson has a plotter s mind: intricate, clever, satisfying THE SUNDAY TIMES

One of our finest novelists SUNDAY EXPRESS

Kate Atkinson is an international treasure: She creates characters with the ease of Agatha Christie, makes narratives out of mysteries and mystery out of narrative, and has written some of the most memorable scenes and dialogue I ve encountered in the past decade VANITY FAIR

I can think of few writers who can make the ordinary collide with the extraordinary to such beguiling effect OBSERVER

One of the country s most innovative, exciting and intelligent authors. SCOTSMAN

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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.

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