Kate Atkinson: Normal Rules Don´t Apply - Taschenbuch

Discover the fantastical Sunday Times bestselling short story collection from the award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life.

´Simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world´ Gillian Flynn

´As soon as you get to the end, you´ll be tempted to just start at the beginning´ Independent

´Funny and poignant in equal measure, you´ll want to read this captivating collection in one mystical sitting.´ Daily Express


Welcome to a world, where nothing is quite what it seems...
In these pages, you´ll meet, among others, a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep, a secretary who watches over the life she has just left, and 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 in a constantly changing multiverse.

Atkinson´s first short story collection in twenty years, Normal Rules Don´t Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales.

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

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

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

´Dazzling´ Reader´s Digest

Praise for Kate Atkinson:

´Inexhaustibly 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