Behind the Scenes at the Museum
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Author | Kate Atkinson |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Novel |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Released | March 2, 1995 |
Media Type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 288 pp |
ISBN | ISBN 0-385-40607-X |
Behind the Scenes at the Museum is the first novel of Kate Atkinson. The book covers the experiences of Ruby Lennox from a middle-class English family.
It shows the lives of four generations of woman from Ruby's great-grandmother Alice and her beautiful children to her mother's failed Hollywood ambitions.
It won the 1995, Whitbread Book of the Year, beating The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie and a biography of William Gladstone by Roy Jenkins.
[edit] Current edition
- Picador (1999) ISBN 0-312-15060-1
[edit] External links
- Reviews, editions and further information at The Wonderful Unofficial Kate Atkinson Website
- Reading Group Guide information