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Behind the Scenes at the Museum : A Novel by Kate Atkinson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Shallow perspective on life from a 20th century girl. In her profoundly moving, uniquely comic debut, Kate Atkinson introduces readers to the mind and world of Ruby Lennox, born above a pet shop in York at the halfway point of the twentieth century, and determined to understand both the family that precedes her and the life that awaits her. Taking her own conception as her starting point, the irrepressible Ruby narrates a story of four generations of women, from her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer, to her mother's unfulfilled dreams of Hollywood glamour, to her young sister's efforts to upstage the Queen on Coronation Day. Hurtling in and out of both World Wars, economic downfalls, the onset of the permissive '60s, and up to the present day, Ruby paints a rich and vivid portrait of family heartbreak and happiness.

Who reads Behind the Scenes at the Museum : A Novel?

Author

Kate Atkinson

Publisher

St. Martin's Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312139285

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.94 / 5 (113 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14