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Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson | Winking Fig

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Not the End of the World

2002·288 pages

Fantasy Literary Fiction

dreamy magical realism short stories

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.

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Not the End of the World

Year

2002

Pages

288

Fantasy Literary Fiction Mystery

Tags

dreamy magical realism short stories

Description

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.

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