Mourning Ruby

Helen Dunmore

earliest edition we have, 2003 G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004 278 pages

More than thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it by the bins in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself, and she and her husband Adam are about to experience the greatest tragedy parents can face. Like a Russian doll, this novel opens to reveal a brilliant richness of stories locked within.MOURNING RUBY is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious nove...

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Editions we hold

Mourning Ruby edition · 2008 · Penguin Group UK · 9780141901565
Mourning Ruby edition · 2005 · Berkley Books · 294 pages · 9780425200193
Mourning Ruby edition · 2004 · G.P. Putnam's Sons · 278 pages
Mourning Ruby edition · 2004 · Center Point Pub. · 303 pages
Mourning Ruby edition · 2003 · Viking · 309 pages

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