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Published
Jan 1996
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Suspense Suspense
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The acclaimed author's "startlingly original . . . poignant and beautifully wrought portrait" of a girl's growing awareness of her dysfunctional family (The Seattle Times).
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year

Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets. Kate Atkinson's first novel is "a multigenerational tale of a spectacularly dysfunctional Yorkshire family and one of the funniest works of fiction to come out of Britain in years" (The New York Times Book Review).

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Nov 1999 Picador ISBN13 9780312150600 ISBN10 0312150601
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Feb 1997 Black Swan (UK) ISBN13 9780552996181 ISBN10 0552996181
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First Edition Jan 1996 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312139285 ISBN10 0312139284
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Nov 1999 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9781417646609 ISBN10 1417646608
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Apr 2013 St. Martin's ISBN13 9781466842663 ISBN10 1466842660
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Apr 2013 St. Martin's ISBN10 B00BMKE7CE
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Apr 2001 Chivers Audio Books ISBN13 9780745167497 ISBN10 0745167497
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Oct 1996 Wheeler ISBN13 9781568953731 ISBN10 1568953739
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