Not the End of the World

by Kate Atkinson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316159371
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	10/27/2004
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.75(d)

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.

Table of Contents

I	Charlene and Trudi Go Shopping	1
II	Tunnel of Fish	21
III	Transparent Fiction	41
IV	Dissonance	61
V	Sheer Big Waste of Love	85
VI	Unseen Translation	111
VII	Evil Doppelgangers	133
VIII	The Cat Lover	159
IX	The Bodies Vest	175
X	Temporal Anomaly	193
XI	Wedding Favors	213
XII	Pleasureland	233
	Acknowledgments	245
	Illustration Credits	246