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Not the End of the World

Kate Atkinson

Arthur is a precocious eight-year-old boy whose mother is a B-list celebrity more concerned with the state of her bank account than with her son's development. Then an enigmatic young nanny named Missy introduces him to a world he never knew existed.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
  • Publish Date: Oct 27th, 2004
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9780316159371
  • Categories: Short Stories (single author)Magical RealismLiterary

About the Author

Kate Atkinson's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, was named England's Whitbread Book of the Year in 1996. Since then, she has written eleven more ground-breaking, bestselling books. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Praise for this book

"Those who already know Kate Atkinson's brilliant novels won't be surprised to find that her richly peopled stories are shot through with the same exhilarating disregard for decorum, the same scintillating wit and wisdom. NOT THE END OF THE WORLD is an exuberant, vivid, and hugely readable collection."