Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson

Brand new hardcover book from the best selling author of “life after life” a book of stories Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of 11 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 andconnection among us all.