Behind the scenes at the museum
Book - 2020
Ruby Lennox is conceived to the twelve strokes of her great-grandmother's clock. Born in her father's absence (he's courting a stranger at the Dog and Hare), she is delivered under the new reign of Queen Elizabeth II by an angry doctor late for dinner. Beginning as a cluster of cells in her mother's womb, Ruby narrates the epic tale of her life and all the lives that led to it. Many end in death, as lives tend to - her family has a knack for getting blown up and run over. Ruby charges forth through the rubble of coincidence and time, determine to illuminate the darkest corners of history, from the calamities of two world wars to the forked fates of three lost buttons. Along the way, she must confront those who would rath...er suppress, deflect, and deny this story: those with things to hide, including herself.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Domestic fiction
Historical fiction - Published
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New York :
Picador
2020.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 25th Anniversary edition. Picador paperback reissue
- Item Description
- Introduction to the twenty-fifth anniversary edition by Kate Atkinson (pages 7-9).
"Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday. First published in the United States in 1995 by St. Martin's Press. First Picador edition, 1999. This Picador paperback reissue, 2020"--Title page verso - Physical Description
- 332 pages ; 21 cm
- Awards
- Whitbread Book Award winner, book of the year and first novel, 1995.
- ISBN
- 9781250251503