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  1. Sep 13, 2023 · Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson is a remarkable collection of loosely connected short stories featuring a cast of interesting characters (enchanted and otherwise) combining elements of speculative fiction, surrealism, mystery, fantasy and folklore, humor, drama and much more. These stories revolve around themes ranging from dystopian, evolution and conservation of our planet and its ...

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  2. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, Normal Rules Don’t Apply is a startling , and funny feast for the imagination. In Kate Atkinson’s world nothing is over until ‘ the talking dog speaks.’. Praise for Kate Atkinson: ‘Simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world’ GILLIAN FLYNN. ‘A ...

  3. Aug 12, 2024 · 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 . . . Format: Paperback (240 pages) Publisher: Penguin Publication date: 23rd May 2024 Genre: Short Stories. Find normal rules don’t apply on Goodreads.

  4. Read this issue. In this review. NORMAL RULES DON’T APPLY. 240pp. Doubleday. £18.99. Kate Atkinson. It is astonishing to revisit the literary sexism that was the norm in 1995, when Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread prize for her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, beating the favourite, Salman Rushdie (for The Moor’s Last Sigh).

  5. About Normal Rules Don’t Apply. A collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, “Stunning…A master class in literary worldbuilding…. Full of speculative glee, but tinged with poignancy.” (Publishers Weekly) Nothing is quite as it seems in this ...

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  6. Sep 12, 2023 · NORMAL RULES DON'T APPLY. Atkinson’s fans might want to wait for her next book. A collection of short fiction in which anything can happen by the celebrated author of the Jackson Brodie novels, among many others. Atkinson’s last book, Shrines of Gaiety (2022) has a single, charismatic figure at its center, a story that spirals outward to ...

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  8. A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observ...