by Kate Atkinson · Bantam Dell Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552996181
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«Behind the Scenes at the Museum» is Kate Atkinson's family novel, published by Bantam Dell Publishing Group in paperback (381 pages, in English).
Ruby Lennox narrates her life from her conception in 1951 to adulthood, while unraveling the secrets of a family that runs a pet shop in York. The chapters are interspersed with leaps into the past that span generations of women from the nineteenth century, blending humor, irony and emotion.
The work, Kate Atkinson's debut novel, was originally published in 1995 and won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
For readers of literary fiction and family sagas, and for book clubs seeking a novel with humor and emotion.
Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. She is also known for the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories.
