Though the ``footnote'' entries are not quite as gripping as those rendered in Ruby's richly vernacular, energetic recitation, Atkinson's ebullient narrative style captures the troubled Lennox family with wit and poignant accuracy. (For example, a passage about a pink glass button reveals the story of its original owner, Ruby's great-grandmother Alice, who will abandon her young family and run off with a French magician.) Ruby's richly imagined account includes both the details of daily life and the several tragic events that punctuate the family's mundane existence. Through its ambitious structure, the novel also charts five generations and more than a century of Ruby's family history, as reported in ``footnotes'' that follow relevant chapters. Ruby has two older sisters, willful Gillian and melancholy Patricia. Her parents own a pet shop her mother, Bunty, bitterly rues having married her philandering husband, George, and daydreams about what her life might have been. It follows the story of a girl named Ruby Lennox who lives in York with her working-class family. Published by Doubleday on 2 March 1995, the book itself stands at 381 pages. Ruby Lennox is a quirky, complex character who relates the events of her life and those of her dysfunctional family with equal parts humor, fervor and candor-starting with her moment of conception in York, England, in 1959: ``I exist!'' Ruby then describes the family she is to join. Behind the Scenes at the Museum is a novel by British author Kate Atkinson, this being her first novel publication. The novel is set in the Yorkshire city of York, England and is written in the style of a first-person. It follows the life of Ruby Lennox, a young girl who lives in England during the 1950s, as she discovers the secrets of her family’s past.

The narrator's insistent voice and breezy delivery animates this enchanting first novel by a British writer who won one of the 1993 Ian St. A: Behind the Scenes at the Museum is a novel by British author Kate Atkinson, first published in 1995.

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