{"product_id":"normal-rules-dont-apply-stories-9780593469880","title":"Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eShrines of Gaiety\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNothing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKATE ATKINSON \u003c\/b\u003ewon the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her 2013 novel \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eA God in Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591407735058,"sku":"9780593469880","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d6454699-8696-4089-bc55-3273dfa045ad.jpg?v=1732090579","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/normal-rules-dont-apply-stories-9780593469880","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}