The book has been adapted for radio and theatre, and has been adapted for television by the author. The book is set in Yorkshire, narrated by Ruby Lennox, who takes the reader through the complex history of her family, covering the events of the twentieth century and reaching back into the past to uncover the lives of distant ancestors. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995), won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year award, beating Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and Roy Jenkins' biography Gladstone. She was runner-up for the Bridport Short Story Prize in 1990 and won an Ian St James Award in 1993 for her short-story Karmic Mothers, which she later adapted for BBC2 television as part of its 'Tartan Shorts' series. She began writing for women's magazines after winning the 1986 Woman's Own Short Story Competition. She later taught at Dundee and began writing short stories in 1981. Kate Atkinson was born in York in 1951 and studied English Literature at Dundee University.Īfter graduating in 1974, she researched a postgraduate doctorate on American Literature.
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