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Informationen zum Autor KATE ATKINSON is one of the world's foremost novelists. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum . Life After Life , an acclaimed BBC TV series, won several prizes including the Costa Novel Award, as did A God in Ruins . Two further historical novels - Transcription and Shrines of Gaiety - were also Sunday Times bestsellers. She has published two critically acclaimed collections of short stories: Not the End of the World and Normal Rules Don't Apply . Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn , When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog , became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky and the most recent, Death at the Sign of the Rook , was a number one bestseller. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. For information about Kate's books, including her Jackson Brodie series, visit www.kateatkinson.co.uk Klappentext Debut novel from a prize winning short story writer! the hardback receiving excellent reviews. A family is observed over the years by one of its members! moving in stark contrast from life in the trenches during the First World War! to the Coronation Year celebrations. "Frank! funny and sad" >Sunday Express Zusammenfassung Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster.
