Mourning Ruby

**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**

Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in the dark outdoors. Who is she, where has she come from and what can she become? Thirty years later, married to Adam, she gives birth to Ruby, and to a new life for herself. But when sudden tragedy changed the course of that life for ever, and all the lives that touch hers, Rebecca is out in the world again, searching . . .

Mourning Ruby explores identity and maternal ties and is bestselling author Helen Dunmore''s eighth novel.

''Moments that bring the reader to tears . . . a fascinating - often brilliant - novel'' The Times

''Bold and unusual . . . miraculously written, Dunmore''s drama of loss and regeneration pieces together shattered lives'' Daily Mail

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