Novelist Kate Atkinson obeys her own title by breaking the rules in her mesmeric new collection of stories
Right, so normal rules don’t apply. That could be thrilling, and it is. This collection of stories by the author ofis spellbinding, and my task here is to present the flavour of the thing.
The author, always in command, is constantly busy with sly, wry, wise, and devastating asides. Density, complexity, clarity all at once, or as in a description of Scottish dancing to bagpipes in: “childishly simple and yet fiendishly complicated at the same time.” And then there’s the tone. Heart in mouth, I never wanted this book to end, and as it happens, the end circles the exhilarated reader back to the beginning. Of course it does.
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