Published by Black Swan, part of Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
£7.99
Author:
Kate Atkinson
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780552996181
£7.99
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EAN: 9780552996181
Published: 22 Jul 2010
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.
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Delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as Dickens...outrageously funny on almost every page...will dazzle readers for years to come.
- London Review of Books
'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 first novel written so fluently and wittily that I sailed through it as though blown by an exhilarating wind. I loved it
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A first novel written so fluently and wittily that I sailed through it as though blown by an exhilarating wind. I loved it
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'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.
- Red
Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international author ever since. Her bestselling novels featuring the former police detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, have been adapted into a successful BBC TV series starring Jason Isaacs. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
