{"product_id":"9780552996181","title":"Behind The Scenes At The Museum","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Kate Atkinson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 January 1996 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Black Swan) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 496 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 128 x 33mm | 344g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 LightRuby 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuby 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Atkinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56261127864645,"sku":"9780552996181","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780552996181.jpg?v=1763037571","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780552996181","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}