Our latest Get Involved post comes from @booksinpublic‘s friend Molly Louise…
I have recently started commuting and my journey has been brightened up no end by reading Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes of the Museum. All-seeing Ruby, the narrator, tells the story of her family, skipping backwards and forwards in time across the twentieth century. This is not one big happy family, but a dysfunctional one and the story contains plenty of tragic and deeply moving events along the way.
Despite the tragedy, this book is highly comic, due to the ever perceptive and wry humour of Ruby. I found myself smiling a lot while reading the book – always a good thing on a train when surrounded by very serious or tired commuters! Each section covers a different slice of the family history, and this also makes it ideal for reading on the train, because the reader does not have to try and keep sense of the chronology from one day to the next, as it moves around anyway!
I’m feeling sad to have finished, in a way that only a good book leaves you, and just wondering what my next train read should be – any suggestions?
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Great review …must look at for this one!