Normal Rules Don't Apply And while Darcy’s first instinct

And while Darcy’s first instinct might be to hole herself up in her childhood bedroom

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing

Four years ago

An impactful

if obliquely

Normal Rules Don't Apply And while Darcy’s first instinctAuthor: Atkinson, Kate A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novelsthe inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she