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Published: 1 May 2010
ISBN: 9781409094555
Imprint: Transworld Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 496

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Contemporary Fiction

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Behind The Scenes At The Museum

Kate Atkinson

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

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.

Pub date: 1 May 2010
ISBN: 9781409094555
Imprint: Transworld Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 496

Categories:

Contemporary Fiction

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About the Author

Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. She won the Costa (formerly the Whitbread) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. She has written four previous bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, which became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. She has since written three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II: Life After Life, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and, most recently, Transcription. Big Sky is her twelfth book.

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Praise for Behind The Scenes At The Museum

“'A debut novel of astonishing confidence and skill...Acutely observant, overflowing with good jokes, it is the work of an author who loves her characters and sets them playing with gleeful energy'”

Spectator

“'An astounding book...without doubt one of the finest novels I have read for years'”

The Times

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

Daily Mail

“'A blinding debut from a Yorkshire mother-of-two who could be Alan Bennett's baby sister...straight-up simplicity veils the depth, poignancy and poetry of her story'”

Time Out

“A first novel written so fluently and wittily that I sailed through it as though blown by an exhilarating wind. I loved it”

“'Enchanting. It hops with sprightly omniscence from past to future and back again'”

The Sunday Times

“A really gripping, emotionally satisfying family saga written with warmth and wit. I've re-read it countless times.”

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