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WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'AN ASTOUNDING BOOK...WITHOUT DOUBT ONE OF THE FINEST NOVELS I HAVE READ FOR YEARS' The Times 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 Patricia 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 'A FIRST NOVEL WRITTEN SO FLUENTLY AND WITTILY THAT I SAILED THROUGH IT AS THOUGH BLOWN BY AN EXHILARATING WIND.I LOVED IT' Margaret ForsterAtkinson, Kate is the author of 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' with ISBN 9780552996181 and ISBN 0552996181.
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