Behind The Scenes At The Museum - Softcover

Atkinson, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552996181 ISBN 13: 9780552996181

Publisher: Black Swan, 1996

Synopsis

'Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' Daily Mail

Kate Atkinson’s brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize.

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, and Ruby...

Ruby tells the story of The Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of Ruby's own life.

About this title

Review:

'A blinding debut from a Yorkshire mother-of-two...straight-up simplicity veils the depth, poignancy and poetry of her story' -- Time Out

'An astounding book...without doubt one of the finest novels I have read for years' -- The Times

'Enchanting. It hops with sprightly omniscience from past to future and back again' -- The Sunday Times

‘Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinson’s hilarious novel made me laugh and cry’ -- Daily Mail

From the Publisher:

Kate Atkinson's brilliant first novel, which won the Whitbread Prize against competition from Salman Rushdie and Roy Hattersley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Swan
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0552996181
• ISBN 13: 9780552996181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496