On loan to Bookczuk

I've been wanting to read this book. Thank you EYClady for loaning it to me. I will treat it kindly, make sure it follows all the house rules and doesn't misbehave while it is away from you in my care.

This is the first Kate Atkinson novel I have read, which is fitting because it was her first book...I'd read the reviews, filled with words like "Stunning", "Breathtaking", "Offbeat", "Playful", "Poignant", "Winner of the Whitbread BOTY", etc. Know what? The reviews were right!

I love quirky characters, and interwoven plots- the intricate nature of everyday life, told with carft and skill. The opening sentence: "I exist!" starts us off and from there the story of Ruby Lenox and her family unfolds. And I loved the parrot that was too mean to sell- that escapes and eventually comes back.

Thank you, EYClady for the loan. I owe you one!

From the Publisher
In her profoundly moving, uniquely comic debut, Kate Atkinson introduces readers to the mind and world of Ruby Lennox, born above a pet shop in York at the halfway point of the twentieth century, and determined to understand both the family that precedes her and the life that awaits her. Taking her own conception as her starting point, the irrepressible Ruby narrates a story of four generations of women, from her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer, to her mother's unfulfilled dreams of Hollywood glamour, to her young sister's efforts to upstage the Queen on Coronation Day. Hurtling in and out of both World Wars, economic downfalls, the onset of the permissive '60s, and up to the present day, Ruby paints a rich and vivid portrait of family heartbreak and happiness.

Bookczuk gave me the book to read before returning it. I found it bewildering.The lines of the four generations weren't clearly identified or else there were too many people involved. Nevertheless I am compeled to keep reading, so it must have something.Can't figure out what it is.

Given by my surrogate bookcrosser to return to EYC Lady. I hope she did.