by Kate Atkinson · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253144908
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«Dans les coulisses du musée» is the novel by Kate Atkinson published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (416 pages, in French).
Ruby Lennox narrates her own story from the moment of her conception in 1951: with irony and uncommon lucidity, she reconstructs the life of her family, owners of a small shop in York, and intertwines it with the echoes of the two world wars and the England of the fifties and sixties.
First novel by Kate Atkinson, published in English in 1995 as «Behind the Scenes at the Museum» and winner of the Whitbread Prize in 1996.
For readers of literary and historical fiction who enjoy family portraits set in twentieth-century England.
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.
