Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (Author) Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Picador USA; First U.S. Edition edition (1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0312150601 ISBN-13: 978-0312150600 Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 2.3 x 20.8 cm
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.