Behind the Scenes at the Museum

The acclaimed author’s “startlingly original . . . poignant and beautifully wrought portrait” of a girl’s growing awareness of her dysfunctional family ( The Seattle Times ). Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 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. Kate Atkinson’s first novel is “a m