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Debut novel from a prize winning short story writer, the hardback receiving excellent reviews. A family is observed over the years by one of its members, moving in stark contrast from life in the trenches during the First World War, to the Coronation Year celebrations. "Frank, funny and sad" >Sunday Express<.
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Whitbread Book of the Year, 1995. Ruby was born while her father was in the pub. Her mother, Bunty, had never wanted to marry him, and dreamt of being swept off to America by a romantic hero, but instead, was stuck in a flat with her three children. This is the family's story.
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Whitbread Book of the Year, 1995. Ruby was born while her father was in the pub. Her mother, Bunty, had never wanted to marry him, and dreamt of being swept off to America by a romantic hero, but instead, was stuck in a flat with her three children. This is the family's story.
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