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Behind the scenes in the museum

The story of a family from the end of the nineteenth century through the startling, witty, and memorable events of the narrator's own life.

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  • "Behind the scenes at the museum"@it
  • "Behind the scenes at the museum : a novel"

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  • "The story of a family from the end of the nineteenth century through the startling, witty, and memorable events of the narrator's own life."@en
  • "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. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but he was all that was left. She really wanted to be Vivien Leigh or Celia Johnson, swept off to America by a romantic hero. But here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster.--Publisher description."
  • "Ruby Lennox, born above a pet shop in York, narrates the story of four generations of women, from her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer to her young sister's efforts to upstage the Queen on Coronation Day."@en
  • "Een jonge vrouw vertelt hoe ze opgroeit in een hard middenstandsgezin in de jaren vijftig in Engeland."
  • "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."@en
  • "National BestsellerWinner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Kate Atkinson's dazzling debut novel is a deeply moving story of family heartbreak and happiness. Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets."@en
  • "The story of the Lennox family who lived in a flat above s pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster as told by Ruby, the youngest of the three Lennox sisters."@en
  • "Story of Ruby Lennox and her family of eccentrics, presenting four generations of women... from her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer to her young sister's efforts to upstage the Queen on Coronation Day."
  • "Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but he was all that was left. And here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop, in an ancient street beneath York Minister, with Patricia aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian and Ruby... Ruby tells the story of the family, from the end of the nineteenth century through to the startling, witty and memorable events of her own life."
  • ""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"--"
  • "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 younger 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 rich and vivid portrait of family heartbreak and happiness."@en
  • "From the moment Ruby Lennox announces her own conception with the shout, "I exist!"--An event she attributes to the five pints of bitter her father drank--it is clear she won't leave anything out of the account of her Yorkshire family. She describes her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer, her mother's dashed dreams of Hollywood glamor and her sister's unsuccessful attempt to upstage the queen of England. A first novel."@en
  • "From the moment Ruby Lennox announces her own conception with the shout, "I exist!"--An event she attributes to the five pints of bitter her father drank--it is clear she won't leave anything out of the account of her Yorkshire family. She describes her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer, her mother's dashed dreams of Hollywood glamor and her sister's unsuccessful attempt to upstage the queen of England. A first novel."

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "English fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Familie- og slægtsromaner"
  • "Drama"
  • "Family stories"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Familienalbum"
  • "Behind the scenes at the museum : [a novel]"
  • "Familienalbum : roman"
  • "Behind the scenes in the museum"
  • "Behind the scenes in the museum"@en
  • "Dans les coulisses du musee : roman"@en
  • "Fénykép ezüstkeretben : [regény]"@hu
  • "Me-aḥore ha-temunot ba-muzeʼon"
  • "V zákulisí muzea"
  • "Familienalbum Roman"
  • "Behind the scenes at the museum"
  • "Behind the scenes at the museum : [the whitbread book of the year]"
  • "Behind the scenes at the museum"@en
  • "מאחורי התמנות במוזיאון"
  • "Музей моих тайн : роман"
  • "Dans les coulisses du musée"
  • "Behind the scences at the museum"@en
  • "Behind the scenes at the Museum"
  • "Dans les coulisses du musée : roman"
  • "I museets dolda vrar"
  • "Familienalbum : Roman"
  • "Muzeĭ moikh taĭn : roman"
  • "Dietro le quinte al museo"@it
  • "Dietro le quinte al museo"
  • "Achter de schermen"
  • "Museon kulisseissa"@fi
  • "Bag kulisserne"
  • "Bag kulisserne"@da
  • "I museets dolda vrår : en familjesaga"@sv
  • "Za obrazami w muzeum"
  • "Entre bastidores"@es
  • "Entre bastidores"
  • "Za obrazami w muzeum"@pl
  • "Fénykép ezüstkeretben"

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