A subaltern is forced to flee when he accidentally kills an overbearing, taunting fellow officer: appearances are all against
...Read by Diana Quick. Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty & born while her father, George, was in the Dog & Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress & a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible & sardonic Patricia aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, & Ruby... Ruby tells the story of The Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice & her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, & memorable events of Ruby's own life.