A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, which offer the gimlet eye and delightful social critique that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time.
Nothing 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. A 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.
- ISBN10 0385688229
- ISBN13 9780385688222
- Publish Date 12 September 2023 (first published 24 August 2023)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Publisher Doubleday Canada
- Imprint Bond Street Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780385688222