![]() ![]() ![]() Based on the careful plotting which is evident in ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’, it is not surprising that Atkinson later moved towards the crime fiction genre in her series of novels featuring private investigator Jackson Brodie. With four sprawling generations to contend with, the Lennox family tree is more complex than that of the Todd family in Atkinson’s later novels, but the connections between the characters and the numerous revelations which eventually follow are handled deftly. ![]() Much like Atkinson’s most recent novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins, ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’ is a multi-generational family saga with a twisting structure which thankfully doesn’t distract too much from her brilliant character observation. Most significantly, the story of what happened to Ruby’s great-grandmother Alice has implications for the whole family for many years to come. The plot alternates between chapters recounting significant events in Ruby’s childhood during the 1950s and 1960s and extended “footnotes” about the earlier generations of her family told in non-chronological order. ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’ is Kate Atkinson’s debut novel first published in 1995 and narrated by Ruby Lennox born in 1952 to a middle-class family who live above a pet shop in York. ![]()
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