Published by Black Swan, part of Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
£7.99
Author:
Kate Atkinson
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780552771054
£7.99
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EAN: 9780552771054
Published: 22 Jul 2010
What is the real world? Does it exist, or is it merely a means of keeping another reality at bay?
Not the End of the World is Kate Atkinson's first collection of short stories. Playful and profound, they explore the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are startlingly present and where imagination has the power to transform reality.
From Charlene and Trudi, obsessively making lists while bombs explode softly in the streets outside, to gormless Eddie, maniacal cataloguer of fish, and Meredith Zane who may just have discovered the secret to eternal life, each of these stories shows that when the worlds of material existence and imagination collide, anything is possible.
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Exceptional...Sharp, witty and completely compelling
- Daily Mail
I can think of few writers who can make the ordinary collide with the extraordinary to such beguiling effect...left me so fizzing with admiration
- Observer
An exceptionally funny, quirky and bold writer
- Independent on Sunday
Moving and funny, and crammed with incidental wisdom
- Sunday Times
Inventive and moving, these are truly tales for the new millennium
- Good Book Guide
Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international author ever since. Her bestselling novels featuring the former police detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, have been adapted into a successful BBC TV series starring Jason Isaacs. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
