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