Behind the Scenes at the Museum

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'WRITTEN WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY PASSION PACKED WITH IMAGES OF BEWITCHING POTENCY, THIS IS AN ASTOUNDING BOOK WITHOUT DOUBT ONE OF THE FINEST NOVELS I HAVE READ FOR YEARS' Mary Loudon, The Times
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 he was all that was left. She really wanted to be Vivien Leigh or Celia Johnson, swept off to America by a romantic hero. But here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patricia 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... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'WRITTEN WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY PASSION PACKED WITH IMAGES OF BEWITCHING POTENCY, THIS IS AN ASTOUNDING BOOK WITHOUT DOUBT ONE OF THE FINEST NOVELS I HAVE READ FOR YEARS' Mary Loudon, The Times
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 he was all that was left. She really wanted to be Vivien Leigh or Celia Johnson, swept off to America by a romantic hero. But here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patricia 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.
'A F1R5T NOVEL WRITTEN SO FLUENTLY AND WITTILY THAT 1 SAILED THROUGH IT AS THOUGH BLOWN BY AN EXHILARATING WIND. I LOVED IT' Margaret Forster
'ENCHANTING. IT HOPS WITH SPRIGHTLY OMNISCIENCE FROM PAST TO FUTURE AND BACK AGAIN' Sunday Times
'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
WINNER OF THE 1995 WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR Vissza