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A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of award-winning, bestselling author Kate Atkinson’s debut novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a deeply moving and deeply funny family story of happiness and heartbreak National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Ruby Lennox begins narrating her own life at the moment of her conception and from there takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a girl determined to learn more about her family and the secrets it keeps. Kate Atkinson’s dazzling first novel, named the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year in England, is a darkly comic, deeply moving story of family heartbreak and happiness.
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition), Kate Atkinson
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- Released
- 2020
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kate Atkinson
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 1250251508
- ISBN13
- 9781250251503
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Relationships, British Literature, England, English Literature, Hope, Family relationships, Sagas, Debut, English Humor
- First published
- 1995
- Original title
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of award-winning, bestselling author Kate Atkinson’s debut novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a deeply moving and deeply funny family story of happiness and heartbreak National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Ruby Lennox begins narrating her own life at the moment of her conception and from there takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a girl determined to learn more about her family and the secrets it keeps. Kate Atkinson’s dazzling first novel, named the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year in England, is a darkly comic, deeply moving story of family heartbreak and happiness.