NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
Kate Atkinson
‘Moving and funny, and crammed
with incidental wisdom’ Sunday Times
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.
‘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
‘Exceptional . . . sharp, witty
and completely compelling’ Daily Mail
‘An exceptionally funny, quirky
and bold writer’ Independent
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