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Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinsons hilarious novel made me laugh and cry Daily Mail n n Kate Atkinsons brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize. n n 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 wasnt 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... n n 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 Rubys own life. n
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