A collection of 11 interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of SHRINES OF GAIETY and LIFE AFTER LIFE.

In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost man who bets on a horse that may --- or may not --- have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here --- the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations of human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.

A startling and funny feast for the imagination, these stories conjure a multiverse of subtly connected worlds while illuminating the webs of chance and connection among us all.

Audiobook available, read by Paterson Joseph