{"product_id":"normal-rules-dont-apply-stories-1","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.\r","brand":"Kate Atkinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44456040169708,"sku":"9780593469880","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780593469880.jpg?v=1709489765","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/normal-rules-dont-apply-stories-1","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}