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|title=Behind the Scenes at the Museum

|author=Kate Atkinson

|date=January 1996

|isbn=0552996181

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Bunty Lennox had never wanted to marry George but after the war he was all that was left. By the night that Ruby is conceived (rather grudgingly, on her part, it has to be said) she already has two children, the sensible but rather-distant Patricia and unpredictable and difficult Gillian. George isn't a lot of help - quite the reverse, in fact. On the night that Ruby is born he's in a pub in Doncaster explaining to a lady in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he's not married. Bunty's not much of a mother either and spends most of the time wishing that the children were elsewhere and that she was anywhere but the flat above the pet shop in the shadow of York Minster.