Mourning Ruby - Dunmore, Helen

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An ambitious novel, both moving and strongly plotted, about memory and history, love and loss. Her previous novels include The Siege which was shortlisted for both The Whitbread Novel Award 2001 and The Orange Prize For Fiction 2002, and sold over 90,000 copies. Nationwide review coverage and advertising on publication.

Résumé :
**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...

Biographie:
A Spell of Winter which won the Orange Prize...

Sommaire:
Burning Bright...