|
|
|
Item Details
Title:
|
MOURNING RUBY
|
By: |
Helen Dunmore |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
|
£16.99 |
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
0670914495 |
ISBN 13: |
9780670914494 |
Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 2003 |
Pages: |
320 |
Description: |
More than 30 years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it by the bins in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself, and she and her husband, Adam, are about to experience the greatest tragedy parents can face. |
Synopsis: |
Like a Russian doll, this is a novel of interlocking stories, each one opening to reveal another. It tells not only the story of the loss of a child and its effect on three people, but an account of a young girl's life in a brothel during WWI, the magical story of a circus acrobat, and the history of Stalin's first wife and her mysterious fate. Mourning Ruby is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory, history - personal and public - about imagination, and ultimately about the most important relationship of all in any novel - that of the reader to the writer. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Viking |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
|
|
|
|
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|