Behind the Scenes at the Museum
By Kate Atkinson
- Release Date: 2013-04-02
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
A deeply moving family story of happiness and heartbreak, Behind the Scenes at the Museum is bestselling author Kate Atkinson's award-winning literary debut.
National Bestseller
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 multigenerational tale of a spectacularly dysfunctional Yorkshire family and one of the funniest works of fiction to come out of Britain in years" (The New York Times Book Review).
Reviews
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
4By Henrietta LeaSprawling, yet intimate, Atkinson's first novel captures the complexity of families and the challenges of mothering. Her women move doggedly forward letting nothing stop their motion. Filled with details her story slows for nothing, skimming through death and life's passages.Not my cup of tea
3By BeachcardWhile she is a good and engaging writer, I found the back and forth time line narrative to be distracting. It made it difficult to bond with the characters who peak in and out of the story. You can look back by the end of the book and put the pieces together but by then it was to late for me to care.
