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Mourning Ruby

Mourning Ruby

by Helen Dunmore

LiteratureFictionGriefDeathFriendship
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More than thirty 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. Like a Russian doll, this novel opens to reveal a brilliant richness of stories locked within.MOURNING RUBY is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory and history - both personal and public - about love, loss and mourning, and ultimately about the most important relationship in any novel - that of the reader to the writer.

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LiteratureFictionGriefDeathFriendshipChildren

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Helen Dunmore

1952

Author

Helen Dunmore

Pages

303

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

5

Language

English

Publisher

Center Point Pub.

ISBN

9780141901565

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