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details Reviews Cover gallery See also - The stage version of Behind the Scenes at the Museum See also - Dr Emma Parker's A Reader's Guide See also - Interview with Kate Atkinson See also - Reading group discussion questions See also - Reading group quotes See also - Behind the Scenes at the Museum family tree [PDF, 8KB] Ruby Lennox was grudgingly conceived 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 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. |