{"product_id":"9781804990803","title":"Normal Rules Don't Apply","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the fantastical Sunday Times bestselling short story collection from the award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world' Gillian Flynn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'As soon as you get to the end, you'll be tempted to just start at the beginning' Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Funny and poignant in equal measure, you'll want to read this captivating collection in one mystical sitting.' Daily Express\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to a world, where nothing is quite what it seems... \n\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharp social observation, Kate Atkinson conjures a feast for the imagination in a constantly changing multiverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAtkinson's first short story collection in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e____________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Hilarious, breathtaking, horrific, irresistible ... [Atkinson is] always in command ... Heart in mouth, I never wanted this book to end' Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Sublime ... showcases her superb storytelling and the wit of her writing' Good Housekeeping\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Life in all of its surreal, tragic and comic glory is perfectly captured within these pages' Red\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Dazzling' Reader's Digest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Kate Atkinson:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Inexhaustibly ingenious' HILARY MANTEL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A brilliant and profoundly original writer' RACHEL CUSK\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Atkinson is a novelist of unrivalled immediacy, authority, and skill' FINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the country's most innovative, exciting and intelligent authors.' SCOTSMAN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin (Transworld)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49647863595256,"sku":"EB_LI0700_E01-03_SYDNEY","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781804990803-1.jpg?v=1783745715","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9781804990803","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}