Behind the scenes at the museum (twenty-fifth anniversary edition), paperback/kate atkinson

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of award-winning, bestselling author Kate Atkinson s debut novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum , a deeply moving and deeply funny family story of happiness and heartbreak National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Ruby Lennox begins narrating her own life at the moment of her conception and from there takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a girl determined to learn more about her family and the secrets it keeps.

Kate Atkinson s dazzling first novel, named the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year in England, is a darkly comic, deeply moving story of family heartbreak and happiness.

About author(s): Kate Atkinson is the author of multiple award-winning and bestselling books, including Transcription , A God in Ruins , Life After Life , Case Histories , Human Croquet , and Emotionally Weird .

Her debut novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum , won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize in England.

She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.