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by Helen Dunmore
narrated by Virginia Leishman
Genre: Modern Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Media: CD
Book Reference: DIR1399
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6919 5
Duration: 8h 15m (approx.) on 8 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
Mourning Ruby is a novel of interlocking stories, each one opening to reveal another. It tells not only the story of the loss of a child and its effect on three people, but an account of a young girl's life in a brothel during WWI, the magical story of a circus acrobat, and the history of Stalin's first wife and her mysterious fate. Hugely moving and strongly plotted, it deals with memory, history, imagination, and ultimately the most important relationship in any novel - that of the reader to the writer.