![]() ![]() ![]() Ruby's own life is told in thirteen chapters, written in the first person, documenting key periods in Ruby's life from 1951 ( "Conception" beginning with the words "I exist!") to 1992. The museum of the title is York Castle Museum, which includes among its exhibits the façades of old houses from the city, similar to the one in which Ruby's family lives.īy interspersing flashbacks with the narrative of Ruby's own life, the book chronicles the lives of six generations of women from Ruby's great-grandmother Alice to Ruby's mother's failed dreams. The book covers the experiences of Ruby Lennox, a girl from a working-class English family living in York. Behind the Scenes at the Museum is British novelist Kate Atkinson's debut novel, published in 1995. ![]()
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