Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson (English) Paperback Book

Description: Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson A saga which ranges from Coronation Year celebrations to life in the trenches in the First World War, following the life of a heroine who provides a birds eye view of her whole family, their lives and times. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description To celebrate the 25th anniversary since first publication, a new edition of Kate Atkinsons brilliant and unforgettable first novel with an introduction by the author.Kate Atkinsons brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize.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 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 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 Rubys own life.Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinsons hilarious novel made me laugh and cry Daily MailAn astounding book...without doubt one of the finest novels I have read for years THE TIMES Notes Debut novel from a prize winning short story writer, the hardback receiving excellent reviews. A family is observed over the years by one of its members, moving in stark contrast from life in the trenches during the First World War, to the Coronation Year celebrations. "Frank, funny and sad" >Sunday Express Back Cover WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 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 with three little girls in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster. Ruby tells the story of The Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling photographer catches frail beautiful Alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of Rubys own life. Author Biography KATE ATKINSON is one of the worlds foremost novelists. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Life After Life, an acclaimed BBC TV series, won several prizes including the Costa Novel Award, as did A God in Ruins. Two further historical novels - Transcription and Shrines of Gaiety - were also Sunday Times bestsellers. She has published two critically acclaimed collections of short stories- Not the End of the World and Normal Rules Dont Apply.Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky and the most recent, Death at the Sign of the Rook, was a number one bestseller.Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.For information about Kates books, including her Jackson Brodie series, Review Delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as Dickens...outrageously funny on almost every page...will dazzle readers for years to come. -- Hilary Mantel * London Review of Books *A debut novel of astonishing confidence and skill...Acutely observant, overflowing with good jokes, it is the work of an author who loves her characters and sets them playing with gleeful energy * Spectator *An astounding book...without doubt one of the finest novels I have read for years * The Times *Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinsons hilarious novel made me laugh and cry * Daily Mail *A blinding debut from a Yorkshire mother-of-two who could be Alan Bennetts baby sister...straight-up simplicity veils the depth, poignancy and poetry of her story * Time Out *A first novel written so fluently and wittily that I sailed through it as though blown by an exhilarating wind; a first novel with a touch so light I only felt its truth and sadness after Id finished it. It lifted my spirits enormously. I loved it. -- Margaret ForsterEnchanting. It hops with sprightly omniscence from past to future and back again * The Sunday Times *A really gripping, emotionally satisfying family saga written with warmth and wit. Ive re-read it countless times. * Red * Promotional To celebrate the 25th anniversary since first publication, a new edition of Kate Atkinsons brilliant and unforgettable first novel with an introduction by the author. Kirkus UK Review Ruby, the narrator, tells us about her Yorkshire childhood, starting within her mothers birth canal, waiting to be born. Interwoven into her childhood - full of bizarre events, as seen by Ruby (but probably nobody else) - are historical footnote sections about Rubys forebears, which work beautifully. Rubys delivery is fast and furious, an overflowing cornucopia of stories, characters, dramatic events and adolescent angst - funny, vivid, original, with a neat surprise tucked into the end. Winner of the 1995 Whitbread Prize. (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review Spanning generations and both world wars, this British debut leaves no stone unturned in recounting the humorously turbulent family history of Ruby Lennox. Some novels grab the reader and hold on in a relentless pull to the finish. Others slowly reveal their secrets, unveiling quiet charms. Atkinson, winner of the lan St. James Award for her short stories, confidently creates a narrative and characters that fall into the latter category - a quirky assortment of angelic RAF gunmen and lecherous village butchers. With its unique beginning - "I exist!" cries Ruby, a minute-old fetus - the journey of Rubys subsequent development, birth, and life up to middle age unfold amid alternating chapters narrating the tragicomic chronicle of her Yorkshire ancestors. From her great-grandmother Alice, who may or may not have died shortly after the itinerant photographer came round; to her grandmother Nell, who lost one fiance after another to the war to end all wars, finally settling for what was left; to her own mother, the formidable and hopelessly disenchanted Bunty, Ruby not only has the phantoms of the past to contend with but also her less than perfect immediate family. Life "above the shop" (pet shop, then medical supply mart after a fire consumes the pets) is an unending ordeal what with Buntys permanent frown and father Georges frequent indiscretions, not to mention the two other Lennox girls and the deadly secret they all keep from Ruby. With a natural storytellers flair, Atkinson tumbles forth an array of anecdotes, revealed secrets, and eccentric snippets of love and death that finally build into the splendid chronicle, ghosts and all, of Rubys life. With a sly, biting humor and honest warmth, a thoroughly enjoyable first novel with the promise of good things to come. (Kirkus Reviews) Prizes Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1995 Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1995 Winner of Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1995 Review Text Delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as Dickens...outrageously funny on almost every page...will dazzle readers for years to come. Review Quote Delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as Dickens...outrageously funny on almost every page...will dazzle readers for years to come. Promotional "Headline" To celebrate the 25th anniversary since first publication, a new edition of Kate Atkinsons brilliant and unforgettable first novel with an introduction by the author. Details ISBN0552996181 Author Kate Atkinson Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd ISBN-10 0552996181 ISBN-13 9780552996181 Format Paperback Imprint Black Swan Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Media Book Series Black Swan Language English Edition New Jacket Year 1996 Publication Date 1996-01-01 Pages 496 DOI 10.1604/9780552996181 UK Release Date 1996-01-01 AU Release Date 1996-01-01 NZ Release Date 1996-01-01 Narrator Llewella Gideon Illustrator Paul Kidby Translator Tiina Nunnally Affiliation Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester Position Professor of Criminology Qualifications QC Audience General Alternative 9781409082644 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1118582;

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