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 on Sunday
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