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 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.Behind The Scenes At The Museum Is A Multi-Faceted, Richly Comic, Richly Tragic Tour-De-Force, An Epic Family Chronicle That Introduces A Wonderfully Original Narrative Voice.
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
SKU: 550
AU$14.95Price
- Kate Atkinson