by KateAtkinson (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: New Edition
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 01 Jan 1996
ISBN 10: 0552996181
ISBN 13: 9780552996181
Book Overview: Kate Atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize.
Prizes: Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1995 and Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1995 and Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1995.