A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life.

In her first short story collection in twenty years, Kate Atkinson delivers an extraordinary blend of wit, imagination, and sharp social observation. Normal Rules Don't Apply transports readers into a multiverse where nothing is quite as it seems.

A queen makes a bargain she cannot keep. A secretary watches over the life she has just left. A man bets on a horse that may or may not have spoken to him. Each story is intricately woven, forming a subtly connected world that explores the unexpected twists of fate and the invisible threads that bind us all.

Inventive, emotionally resonant, and darkly funny, this collection is a feast for the imagination one that proves why Atkinson is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.