- Fiction, Women, Family, Historical fiction
The story of Ruby's own life is told in thirteen chapters, all written in the first person, documenting key periods in Ruby's life from 1951 to 1992. In between each chapter are (non-consecutive) flashbacks that tell the story from the point of view of one of the other (mostly female) members of Ruby's family—including her great-grandmother Alice, her grandmother Nell and her mother Bunty.
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Grave, earnest, character-led and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Kate Atkinson
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 381
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Picador USA, Paragon
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780552996181
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Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Besides novels, she has penned one play and a collection of short stories.
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