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She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

Biography: Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists.

'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 Atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' Daily Mail 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 Ruby's own life.

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. 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 wasn't married.

'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 Light Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Kate Atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize. Though the ``footnote'' entries are not quite as gripping as those rendered in Ruby's richly vernacular, energetic recitation, Atkinson's ebullient narrative style captures the troubled Lennox family with wit and poignant accuracy.Also available on eBook for £4.99. (For example, a passage about a pink glass button reveals the story of its original owner, Ruby's great-grandmother Alice, who will abandon her young family and run off with a French magician.) Ruby's richly imagined account includes both the details of daily life and the several tragic events that punctuate the family's mundane existence. Through its ambitious structure, the novel also charts five generations and more than a century of Ruby's family history, as reported in ``footnotes'' that follow relevant chapters. Ruby has two older sisters, willful Gillian and melancholy Patricia. Her parents own a pet shop her mother, Bunty, bitterly rues having married her philandering husband, George, and daydreams about what her life might have been. Ruby Lennox is a quirky, complex character who relates the events of her life and those of her dysfunctional family with equal parts humor, fervor and candor-starting with her moment of conception in York, England, in 1959: ``I exist!'' Ruby then describes the family she is to join. The narrator's insistent voice and breezy delivery animates this enchanting first novel by a British writer who won one of the 1993 Ian St.