![]() ![]() There are the great challenges of war, fire and death, alongside the more mundane realities of domestic life that occasionally give rise to great (and often unwise) decisions. Still less hope is held for her father, George, who is partial to a night on the tiles with his sleazy butcher friend.īehind the Scenes at the Museum weaves between the lives of Ruby and her great-grandmother, stopping at moments of significance in the lives of the many who came between and alongside the two. Even the conception ‘has left her irritable, an emotion with which she is very comfortable”. After all, the mother, Bunty, is not the kind to welcome a baby with open arms. However, the story does not really begin as one of home and optimism, but slight dread. With Ruby as the narrator of its modern-day sections, it begins in the womb. While Behind the Scenes at the Museum might be the story of a family, with limbs reaching back into the past, at its heart is not love, but loss. Often, family sagas centre on a great love, either thwarted or consummated. ![]()
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