Normal Rules Dont Apply, Kate Atkinson
Normal Rules Dont Apply, Kate Atkinson
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
Stories

Author: Kate Atkinson

Narrator: Paterson Joseph

Unabridged: 5 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/12/2023

Synopsis

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 observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.

Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may—or may not—have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. 

A startling and funny feast for the imagination, these stories conjure a multiverse of subtly connected worlds while illuminating the webs of chance and connection among us all.

About The Author

KATE ATKINSON won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her 2013 novel Life After Life was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and voted Book of the Year for the independent booksellers associations on both sides of the Atlantic. It also won the Costa Novel Award, as did her subsequent novel, A God in Ruins (2015), and was adapted into a critically acclaimed television series in 2022. Her bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. She has written twelve groundbreaking, bestselling books and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee on July 11, 2023

Five stars for this creative, interconnected group of short stories, by one of the UK‘s most gifted authors. I’m really getting into short stories, and when Kate Atkinson writes another collection, I sit up and take notice. There are colourful characters in abundance, some whom keep popping up, espe......more

Goodreads review by Julie on October 21, 2023

I don't read nearly as much contemporary literary fiction as I used to. It was my default genre, but of late I am turned off by self-serious, issue-driven novels that exhaust with scolding themes and forced narratives. I turn toward historical fiction for depth, crime/mystery fiction for escape, and......more

Goodreads review by Nae on July 30, 2024

I absolutely loved this collection of loosely interconnected, quirky stories by Kate Atkinson. I was so mesmerized by this book that I stayed up all night to finish it. I recommend it wholeheartedly, particularly if you've enjoyed her novels like "Human Croquet" and "Life After Life" - and if you ha......more

Goodreads review by Sue on September 13, 2023

Normal Rules Don’t Apply is a very apt title for Kate Atkinson’s new short story collection. She is well known for her ability to keep complex plots with multiple characters moving and alive in wonderful fictions. Here she does the same over the span of eleven stories, some obviously connected, some......more

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