Behind the scenes at the museum
by Kate Atkinson
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In her profoundly moving, uniquely comic debut, Kate Atkinson introduces readers to the mind and world of Ruby Lennox, born above a pet shop in York at the halfway point of the twentieth century, and determined to understand both the family that precedes her and the life that awaits her.
Taking her own conception as her starting point, the irrepressible Ruby narrates a story of four generations of women, from her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer, to her mother's unfulfilled dreams of Hollywood glamour, to her young sister's efforts to upstage the Queen on Coronation Day. Hurtling in and out of both World Wars, economic downfalls, the onset of the permissive '60s, and up to the present day, Ruby paints a rich and vivid portrait of family heartbreak and happiness.
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
February 28, 2003, Chivers Audio Books
Audio CD
0754055779 9780754055778
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
April 2001, Chivers Audio Books
Audio Cassette
in English
0745167497 9780745167497
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Readers Guide (Reading Group Guides)
July 2000, Picador USA
Paperback
in English
- Prepack edition
0312251742 9780312251741
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
January 1997, Picador
Paperback
in English
0312150601 9780312150600
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Behind the scenes at the museum
1996, St. Martin's Press
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
0312139284 9780312139285
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The story of Ruby's own life is told in thirteen chapters, all written in the first person, documenting key periods in Ruby's life from 1951 to 1992. In between each chapter are (non-consecutive) flashbacks that tell the story from the point of view of one of the other (mostly female) members of Ruby's family—including her great-grandmother Alice, her grandmother Nell and her mother Bunty.
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