June Book Group

This month we’ll be reading Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson. 

As neither of us have read it yet, here’s the Amazon review:

“I exist!” exclaims Ruby Lennox upon her conception in 1951, setting the tone for this humorous and poignant first novel in which Ruby at once celebrates and mercilessly skewers her middle-class English family. Peppered with tales of flawed family traits passed on from previous generations, Ruby’s narrative examines the lives in her disjointed clan, which revolve around the family pet shop. But beneath the antics of her philandering father, her intensely irritable mother, her overly emotional sisters, and a gaggle of eccentric relatives are darker secrets–including an odd “feeling of something long forgotten”–that will haunt Ruby for the rest of her life. Kate Atkinson earned a Whitbread Prize in 1995 for this fine first effort.

We don’t know about you, but we can’t wait to get stuck in!

Please leave us a comment below if you want to join in, and we’ll enter you in the Monthly Book Giveaway (results to be randomly drawn mid-June).