Mourning Ruby - Softcover

Dunmore, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141017562 ISBN 13: 9780141017563

Publisher: Penguin, 2004

Synopsis

More than thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it by the bins in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself, and she and her husband Adam are about to experience the greatest tragedy parents can face. Like a Russian doll, this novel opens to reveal a brilliant richness of stories locked within.

MOURNING RUBY is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory and history - both personal and public - about love, loss and mourning, and ultimately about the most important relationship in any novel - that of the reader to the writer.

About this title

About the Author

Helen Dunmore has published seven novels with Viking and Penguin: ZENNOR IN DARKNESS, which won the McKitterick Prize; BURNING BRIGHT; A SPELL OF WINTER, which won the Orange Prize; TALKING TO DEAD; YOUR BLUE-EYED BOY; WITH YOUR CROOKED HEART, and THE SIEGE, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer. She lives in Bristol.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0141017562
• ISBN 13: 9780141017563
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320