Ruby, the narrator, tells us about her Yorkshire childhood,
starting within her mother's birth canal, waiting to be born.
Interwoven into her childhood - full of bizarre events, as seen by
Ruby (but probably nobody else) - are historical 'footnote'
sections about Ruby's forebears, which work beautifully. Ruby's
delivery is fast and furious, an overflowing cornucopia of stories,
characters, dramatic events and adolescent angst - funny, vivid,
original, with a neat surprise tucked into the end. Winner of the
1995 Whitbread Prize. (Kirkus UK)
Kate Atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won
the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize. 'Delivers its
jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as Dickens...outrageously
funny...will dazzle readers for years to come' - HILARY MANTEL,
author of The Mirror and the Light 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. 'Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit
and energy, Kate Atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry'
Daily Mail 'An astounding book...without doubt one of the finest
novels I have read for years' THE TIMES
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