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Informationen zum Autor Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. Her most recent novel, Shrines of Gaiety , set in the aftermath of the First World War, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum . Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life , an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription . Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn , When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog , became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky . Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Klappentext We meet 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. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, NORMAL RULES DON'T APPLY is a startling, and funny feast for the imagination. Zusammenfassung The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life In this first full collection since Not the End of the World , we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him. With clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharp social observation, Kate Atkinson conjures a feast for the imagination, a constantly changing multiverse in which nothing is quite as it seems. ‘ What really binds these stories is their underlying theme, which has perhaps always been Atkinson’s true subject: the nature of storytelling itself’ Times Literary Supplement ‘ Life in all of its surreal, tragic and comic glory is perfectly captured within these pages’ Red ‘ Sublime’ Good Housekeeping ‘ Dazzling’ Reader's Digest ____________ Praise for Kate Atkinson: 'Inexhaustibly ingenious' HILARY MANTEL 'Simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world' GILLIAN FLYNN 'A brilliant and profoundly original writer' RACHEL CUSK 'Atkinson is a novelist of unrivalled immediacy, authority, and skill' FINANCIAL TIMES 'One of the country's most innovative, exciting and intelligent authors.' SCOTSMAN Sunday Times bestseller, August 2023 ...
