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''Behind the Scenes at the Museum'' is the first novel of British novelist Kate Atkinson. The book covers the experiences of Ruby Lennox, a girl from a middle-class English family living in York. The museum of the title is York Castle Museum, which includes among its exhibits the facades of old houses from the city, similar to the one in which Ruby's family lives. By interspersing flashbacks with the narrative of Ruby's own life, the book chronicles the lives of four generations of women from Ruby's great-grandmother Alice to Ruby's mother's failed dreams. Ruby's own life is told in thirteen chapters, written in the first person, documenting key periods in Ruby's life from 1951 ("Conception" beginning with the words "I exist!") to 1992. Between each chapter are (non-consecutive) flashbacks that tell the story from the point of view of one of the other members of Ruby's family—including her great-grandmother Alice, her grandmother Nell and her mother Bunty. ==Main characters== *Alice Barker, Ruby's great grandmother *Nell, Bunty's mother *Lillian, Nell's sister *Bunty, Ruby's mother, Nell's daughter *George, Ruby's father *Ruby Lennox, Bunty's daughter/Narrator *Gillian Lennox, Ruby's older sister *Patricia Lennox, Ruby's oldest sister (Ruby's family tree ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Behind the Scenes at the Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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