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 t... » 

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 firl determined to learn more about her family and the secrets it keeps. Kate Atkonsons dazzling first novel named the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year in England is a darkley comic deeply moving story of family heartbreak and happiness. «