Mourning Ruby

By Helen Dunmore

Subjects: Grief, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Death, Literature, Friendship, fiction, Large type books, Bereavement, Children, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Friendship

Description: More than thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it by the bins in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself, and she and her husband Adam are about to experience the greatest tragedy parents can face. Like a Russian doll, this novel opens to reveal a brilliant richness of stories locked within.MOURNING RUBY is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory and history - both personal and public - about love, loss and mourning, and ultimately about the most important relationship in any novel - that of the reader to the writer.