by Helen Dunmore · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141015019
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«Mourning Ruby» is a contemporary fiction novel by Helen Dunmore, published by Penguin in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Rebecca was abandoned by her mother two days after birth, inside a shoebox next to an Italian restaurant. Thirty years later, married to Adam and mother of Ruby, a family tragedy pushes her to rebuild her life and investigate her origins. The novel interweaves several stories to explore memory, identity, love and grief.
It is Helen Dunmore's eighth novel, published in 2004 by Penguin Books. The narrative combines individual and collective memory with a strong psychological dimension.
For reading groups and readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in motherhood, identity and grief.
Helen Dunmore FRSL was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.
