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Mourning Ruby

Mourning Ruby

Mourning Ruby Paperback - 2004

by Dunmore, Helen

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Penguin, 27/05/2004 00:00:01. paperback. Like New. 2.3982 19.1854 12.9901. Creased spine. Tanning to edge of pages
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  • Title Mourning Ruby
  • Author Dunmore, Helen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition New
  • Pages 322
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Publication date 27/05/2004 00:00:01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000728716
  • ISBN 9780141015019 / 0141015012
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.81 x 5.06 x 0.72 in (19.84 x 12.85 x 1.83 cm)
  • Size 2.3982 19.1854 12.9901
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**

Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history in the dark outdoors. Who is she where has she come from and what can she become? Thirty years later married to Adam she gives birth to Ruby and to a new life for herself. But when sudden tragedy changed the course of that life for ever and all the lives that touch hers Rebecca is out in the world again searching . . .

Mourning Ruby explores identity and maternal ties and is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's eighth novel.

'Moments that bring the reader to tears . . . a fascinating - often brilliant - novel' The Times

'Bold and unusual . . . miraculously written Dunmore's drama of loss and regeneration pieces together shattered lives' Daily Mail

'Emotionally restrained beautifully observed' Daily Telegraph

Helen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead ; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphan; Counting the Stars and The Betrayal which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. She is also a poet children's novelist and short-story writer.

About the author

Helen Dunmore has published seven novels with Viking and Penguin: Zennor In Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell Of Winter which won the Orange Prize; Talking to The Dead, Your Blue Eyed Boy, With Your Crooked Heart and The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer. She lives in Bristol.

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